Alright, I got a tough cookie for all'ya.

eg.
1. <kewl>@ 342pleaseHELP #
%</kewl>

2. <kewl>@ 342please #
%</kewl>

I need to make a regex pattern that will match only number 2. And yes those are supposed to be on 2 different lines (new lines).

I tried in VIM the following:
/<kewl>\(.\|\n\)*<\/kewl>

That ends up finding both 1. and 2.

So i tried:
/<kewl>\([^a-z]\|.\|\n\)*<\/kewl>
and
/<kewl>\(.\|\n\([^a-z]\)\)*<\/kewl>

That didn't work.

Is there a logical "BUT" or "AND" operator in regular expressions. I mean regex is based on set theory! Where's the AND operator? How about quantifier scoping? I need an "AND NOT" operator!! Very frustrated.

&& is and || is or I think (or maybe the bitwise style & |).... I'm still learning RexExp.

/^<kewl>[@] \d{3}\w{6} #\n<\/kewl>$/

won't work? If not, can somebody explain why as I want to learn about this.

or
/^<kewl>[@] \d{3}\w{6} #\n$^<\/kewl>$/

I don'
t know if you can use ^ and $ twice though

I regular expression that matches two numbers...
[0-9]{2}

maybe if you said what exactly you're trying to do...

And what you were using to write it with: Perl, sed, awk, Borne