From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2003-07-08T03:12:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Need regex to match "^\n"

On 2003.07.08, Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:
> > > > Just remember, string goes on the left, regex goes on the right.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Actually, it doesn't matter, but Matz prefers the regex on the left.
> >
> > Heh.  Learn something new every day.
> 
> I always wondered about that.  It "reads" funny to my brain that way but I
> wasn't consulted.  =D   Too, it's easy enough to do either direction, so no
> worries.

Maybe it has to do with Matz being used to reading RTL and not LTR like
us 'merkins.

-- Dossy

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