> http://www.english.uga.edu/humcomp/perl/regex2a.html

This is a very straightforward document.  Thanks, Len.  But now I have some 
questions.  According to that document, the ^ character is illegal except 
immediately after a left bracket.  However, most of the Imgate and Postfix 
regexp files have lines that begin with "/^".

Now I see in man regex 3 that perhaps ^ and $ are beginning and ending 
anchors.  (It's vague, but it seems to make sense.)

What I do not see anywhere is why there are / characters surrounding the 
regexp's.  Is this part of the regexp standard or simply how Postfix 
identifies the start and end of each regexp?

Sorry if these questions are rudimentary.  Hopefully the answers will 
enlighten others as well.

Sincerely,
Michael Keen
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