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Re^4: Strange regex to test for newlines: /.*\z/

by xicheng (Sexton)
on May 21, 2007 at 16:57 UTC ( [id://616602]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Strange regex to test for newlines: /.*\z/
in thread Strange regex to test for newlines: /.*\z/

hmm, Just notice that, thanks..

I think, .* and .{0,} at the beginning of a regex pattern shold have been treated as optional, so that /.*A/ and /.{0,}A/ should be the same as /A/ which means .* and .{0,} are completely unnecessary in the above patterns..

But \z looks behave very differently to .* and .{0,} as you mentioned.

This looks like a Perl-related problem, PHP(use a similar regex engine) does it pretty well:
php -r ' $str = "foo\n"; if (preg_match("/.*\z/", $str)) { print "match\n"; } ' match
Probably it's a bug, and I am waiting for someone to make it clear. :-)

Regards,
Xicheng

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