Re^5: Return string that starts and ends with specific characters

> but this looks like a fortunate bug, because ^ is a metacharacter in some positions, it's treated differently.

I finally understood that it's not a bug, because ^ is always a metacharacter, in order to match a literal ^ one needs to escape it

And "Match the beginning of the line" will always fail unless modifiers like /m are used

  DB<1> p "a^b" =~ /a^b/


  DB<2> p "a^b" =~ /a\^b/
1

  DB<3> p "\nb" =~ /^b/m
1
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Cheers Rolf
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