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fun_with_perl
Date:
March 7, 2005 14:46
Subject:
Re: Self-recognizing programs and regular expressions
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d0ilj8$gpv$1@post.home.lunix
In article <20050307223544.GE73711@penkwe.pair.com>,
	rjk@penkwe.pair.com writes:
> 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
Indeed. For some reason I was thinking only the first ^ meant start of
string and the rest is literal. Not so of course.
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