in reply to State this simple regex in English?

Hello misterperl,

The $ at the end of the regex anchors the match to the end of the line. Since CAT1 does not satisfy CAT followed by zero or more characters in the range 2 to 9 followed immediately by the end of the line, it doesn’t match.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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