From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-04-27T21:31:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp and $

Hi --

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Brian Candler wrote:

> FWIW, awk agrees with Perl:
>
> $ awk -- 'BEGIN { a="abc\n"; gsub("$","z",a); print a }' </dev/null
> abc
> z
>
> So it seems to me this is an anomoly introduced by Ruby.

sed treats $ line-wise:

$ echo -e "abc\nabc" | sed -e 's/abc$/def/'
def
def


David

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