Preventing a verse from printing

Question

I would like to print the book of Proverbs, but I'd like to suppress printing any verse that contains the word "LATER" in it.

This seems like a job for changes.txt, but I can't get it to work.

For example, I thought this might be dangerous and overzealous, but I thought it would at least work:

'\\v .*?LATER.*?\\v' > '\\v'

Does "." not capture line endings? Is there any way to do what I'm trying?

Answer 1

I think I have at least a few answers to my question:

Most of my problem was actually caused by a custom script I was running. Running the script at the end, rather than the beginning, allowed my changes.txt edits to take place. I'm not sure why, but that seems to be the answer.

Also, I think that "." doesn't capture new lines. Both [.\r\n] and [\s\S] seem to work to capture everything.

For some reason that I really don't understand, this worked:

'\\v \d+ LATER([\s\S]*?)(?=\\v)' > ''

but this didn't

'\\v \d+ LATER([\s\S]*?)\\v' > '\\v '

[Side rant: I really miss when the forum allowed Markdown.]