SPUG: When is a caret just a caret? And what about dollar?
Charles DeRykus
derykus at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 05:26:38 PDT 2009
No, caret needs backwhacking to be a self-match:
perl -wle "use re 'debug'; /^^/"
Compiling REx "^^"
Final program:
1: BOL (2)
2: BOL (3)
....
perl -wle "use re 'debug'; /^\^/"
Compiling REx "^\^"
Final program:
1: BOL (2)
2: EXACT <^> (4)
....
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Charles DeRykus
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRWolf at att.net>wrote:
> I seem to remember that the meaning of caret in a regex is
> context-sensitive, and it can be an anchor, a complement, or just (with
> apologies to Sigmond) a caret.
>
> My memory is that . Ergo, /^^[^^]^/ would match "beginning of line then
> caret then anything-but-a-caret then caret". I can't seem to find support
> for this (long-held) belief. Have I been wrong for this long?
>
> And while I'm at it, how 'bout dollar? I thought it was an anchor iff it
> was the last character in the regex, else it introduced a scalar variable
> for interpolation.
>
> It seems that the documentation says that caret and dollar are *always*
> metacharacters. Any ideas how I could have been mislead by a (seemingly)
> similar set of rules that I may have misinterpreted? Has their meaning
> changed in previous versions of Perl (or the Perl regex engine)?
>
>
>
> --
> Michael R. Wolf
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