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It would match anything. It's an alternation, matching either start of string or end of string.
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Re^3: This is not a pipe
by thor (Priest) on Mar 12, 2005 at 05:14 UTC
    Right you are. I was supposing that this was one of those situations where the regex characters were taken literally, like if you were to do m/^{/;.

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