SPUG: minimal unmatching regex

[Aaron West]

I was starting to think of something like this, but assumed (wrongly) that ^
would only mean start of string, at start of regex. Oops...


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Ingy shot an eagle on the ninth:

>     /.^/
>
> Then again maybe my smaller submission fails to be comprehensible. I can't
> seem to grok it myself, but I'm sure Damian can. :)

I'm sure you *can* grok it. It's very straightforward: match (almost)
any single character, then be at the start of the string. A clear and
obvious paradox, and hence unmatchable.