From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-08-18T19:26:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading contents of a file and storing

Robert Dober wrote:
> I was just wondering, should we not refuse to use ^ for the beginning
> of a string ( even knowing it is a line )? I personally have abandoned
> ^ for \A for quite some time now. Is nobody going to follow ;).

I didn't follow you, but I've been using \A..\z for years.

This is certainly an area where Ruby can trip you up dangerously, if 
you're expecting Perl-like regular expression behaviour.
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