Vassili's Regex

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Wed Oct 20 14:02:36 UTC 2004


On Oct 20, 2004, at 3:54 PM, Torsten Bergmann wrote:

> Does ^ not mean to skip spaces at the beginning?
> Is this a bug in the Squeak port (haven't checked the
> VW original).

In any regular expression system I've used, ^ means *don't* skip spaces 
at the beginning.  It's the marker for "start of string", like $ is the 
marker for "end of string".

Avi




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