Eero Saynatkari
9/29/2006 4:50:00 PM
On 2006.09.30 01:03, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> > And, shouldn't /m tell it to include everying, including newlines?
>
> No, the multiline option causes the regexp engine to include newlines in
> the '.' character class. Unlike some other languages, I don't believe it
> has any effect on ^ or $.
That is correct--^matches right after a newline and $ right before
it. \A and \Z are beginning and end of a given String, respectively.