in reply to Help with a regex
You understood ^ and $ correctly, you probably test it wrong. Could you give us the code sample that makes you reach that conclusion ?
perl -E 'say /^lib/ ? "$_ matched" : "$_ did not match" for qw/nfcclib lib/;'
nfcclib did not match lib matched
Alternatively, you could also use \b which means word boundary (so the regex m<\blib>; or its equivalent /\blib/)
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