From: James Edward Gray II Date: 2005-12-17T07:00:12+09:00 Subject: Re: challenge - regex which matches nothing On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:47 PM, mathew wrote: > ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote: >> comments? > > I think you mean 'a regex which doesn't match anything'; surely > /^$/ is a regex which matches nothing? No, he meant a regex that always fails. Yours matches empty lines. James Edward Gray II