grep replacement

[Ozan Yigit]

In article <7939 at alice.UUCP> andrew at alice.UUCP writes:
>
>many people have written about patterns matching multiple lines.
>grep will not do this. if you really need this, use sam by rob pike
>as described in the nov 1987 software practice and experience.
>
	Why should this not be done by grep ??? I think Rob Pike's
	"Structured Expressions" is the way to go for a modern grep,
	where newline spanning is supported, and the program does
	not die unexpectedly just because a file contains a line too
	long for a stupid internal "line size". (For an insightful
	discussion of this, interested readers could check out Rob's
	paper in EUUG proceedings.)

oz
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