Re: Regexp not stateless?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     This matches at the start of this text with `looking-at':
>
>     <script type="text/javascript">
>     <![CDATA[
>
>     However sometimes it matches just to the end of the first line and 
>     sometimes to the end of the second line (as it should). I am using this 
>     little function to test:
>
> If you try a space instead of the newline
> in that initial text, do you still get variation?

No, I could not make it happen with just a space as far as I remember. 
However Stefan had some other suggestions which I have not had time to 
test through yet.