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

[moritz]

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

So I'd expect "foo\n" =~ /.*\z/; to match, but capture the empty string in $&, not "foo\n".

Of course there are more elaborate ways to match for a newline character ;-)

[mrpeabody]

.* 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