On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:14 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I vaguely remember that matching the whole line is a requirement
> > for standard tags files.  I'll have to check that again.
> 
> If your regular expression starts with ^ and ends with $ it
> must match the whole line,
> 
> If it starts with ^ but does not end with $ it only needs to match
> a prefix of the line.

From my understanding, the same tag may appear several times in the
same file so that it requires matching the whole line to locate the
particular occurrence.

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