Hello!
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 05:00:41PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> [...]
> Hm. Adding ^ and $ should work, provided you don't specify either
> REG_NOTBOL or REG_NOTEOL. (I assume that (foo) above, including the parens,
> is the RE. With the parens, it depends whether you're using standard REs or
> extended REs. :)
But be careful about adding ^ and $ to something like (extended syntax)
foo|bar. ^foo|bar$ is wrong, and ^(foo|bar)$ works HERE but not always,
as when the original regex uses \number backreferences, you must patch them
(increase by one), and you're hosed if \9 is already used.
> [...]
Regards, Hannah.
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