in reply to Mnemonic for begin/end chars in regexes

Among the answers to your crosspost on the fediverse, Mark Gardner points out that this syntax is of similiar age as Unix, definitely older than Perl.
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Re^2: Mnemonic for begin/end chars in regexes
by Anonymous Monk on May 15, 2023 at 05:54 UTC
    Yeah, I'm just used to using it in *nix systems generally, eg vi/vim's matching for search-&-replace .

    Hence it's now ingrained in my head/fingers :)