On Jun 7, Martin Weinless said:
>take the regexp '.n+..?.?v*.'
>
>By all that is sacred, if we use the string 'supernova', there should be
>no match since there are too many characters before the 'n'
>
>However, any regexp checking code will report a match.
You're not saying "the string must start with /.n+..?.?v*./". To do that,
you have to say /^.n+etc/.
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