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rjk
Date:
March 7, 2005 14:45
Subject:
Re: Self-recognizing programs and regular expressions
Message ID:
20050307223544.GE73711@penkwe.pair.com
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:27:53PM +0000, Ton Hospel wrote:
> An infinite sequence of ^ matches only itself....

Actually, any sequence of ^ matches any string, since ^ simply matches the
beginning of the string.

Ronald
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