Re: Ambiguity about what $ means?

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 08:01:58 -0800 (PST)
Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:

> But, you can still match end-of-line in the middle of a pattern using
> "\n".

No, that matches a new-line character. The difference is that $ matches
the end of the line, not a character. This is called an anchor.

"Anchors are a different breed. They do not match any character at all.
Instead, they match a position before, after, or between characters."
http://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html


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