a pcre question

[Victor Sudakov]

Dear Colleagues,

Sorry for a not directly FreeBSD-related question, but why can't I make
pcretest from devel/pcre match a newline to the "." token? I expected
that either the "m" or the "s" modifier should do the job, but alas!

$ pcretest ~/tmp/koshka.txt
PCRE version 8.43 2019-02-23

/koshka.*sobaka/s
koshka1
No match
koshka2
No match
sobaka
No match
koshka
No match
koshka33
No match

While the same regex /koshka.*sobaka/s yields a match on https://regex101.com/

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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