[whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 Substantial - Section 2

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote:
>
> But the spec already says
> "The pattern must be compiled with the multiline flag enabled (see
> ECMA262, section 15.10.7.4)."
>
> This means that periods DO match newlines.
>
> javascript:alert(/^.*$/m.test('multiple \n\n lines \n\n here'))

Ok now I'm really confused. It's like ".*" sometimes matches newlines and
sometimes doesn't. Am I missing something obvious here?:

   http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/js/regexp/001.html

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