David Barnett wrote:
> I noticed that matchstr() seems to always interpret ^ as
> start-of-string and $ as end-of-string, even when the string
> is multiple lines. ":help pattern" says they should be
> start-of-line and end-of-line, respectively.
>
> For example
> :echo matchstr("foo\nbar", '^foo$')
> matches nothing.
:help matchstr() says it's the same as match(), and the help for
that says to see ':help string-match', and that says that "\n"
can be matched with "\n", but (by implication) not by $.
John
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