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

by mrpeabody (Friar)
on May 22, 2007 at 20:37 UTC ( [id://616861]=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/

.* will match anything but a newline, or the empty string.

It will match both of those, actually, as it should.

506 $ perl -we'print "yes" if "" =~ /.*/' yes 507 $ perl -we'print "yes" if "\n" =~ /.*/' yes

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