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Re: possible bug in regex and dfa


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: possible bug in regex and dfa
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 21:58:56 -0500
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On 7/15/21 1:48 PM, Arnold Robbins wrote:
The regexp used there, ".^", to my mind should be treated as invalid.

No, that regular expression is valid because "." matches newline in POSIX EREs. So the "." matches a newline, and the following "^" matches the start of the next line.




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