On Mai 30 2024, Philippe Cerfon wrote: > Now GNU grep says "The empty regular expression matches the empty string.". > Yet it still matches "foo" in the example above, which clearly is not empty.
It matches the empty string *anywhere* in the text. The match is not anchored. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."