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use strict; use warnings; ... my @strings = ('', '1', 'a', "a\n"); /^[a]*$/ && print "/^[a]*\$/ matches >$_<\n" for @strings; /^a*$/ && print "/^a*\$/ matches >$_<\n" for @strings;
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