From: Ceri Storey <cez@...>
Date: 2003-12-12T03:31:11+09:00
Subject: Re: problems with racc: $end token

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:17:51AM +0900, Luke A. Kanies wrote:
> This code strips out the 'a' in 'alias'.  In other words, the anchor '^'
> is anchoring against the beginning of a line, rather than the beginning of
> the string.

I had that problem a day or two ago...

> How do I specifically anchor against the beginning of a string in ruby,
> _not_ the beginning of a line in a string?

Use \A for the beginning, and \Z for the end. I believe.
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Ceri Storey <cez@necrofish.org.uk>