Re: add a new rule type: single-line body?

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

Duncan Findlay writes:
> On Jul 27, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Justin Mason wrote:
> 
> > Just wondering.  would it be handy to have a new "body" type, the  
> > same as
> > "body" but matched as a single string, with all newlines converted  
> > to " "?
> > in other words, this text:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > ie, no newlines, all whitespace converted to " ".  this would be  
> > optimal
> > for matching with phrase rules.  (To avoid exponential-runtime .*
> > problems, it'd chop the text after the first 8000 characters or so.)
> 
> How is this different than rawbody /s rules?

rawbody doesn't interpret HTML or convert whitespace.

--j.