\n is not magically mapped to $/ "behind the scenes". There are so many misconceptions combined in that sentence that I'm at a loss at where to start.

My reaction is strong because these many misconceptions are common, I've railed against them several times, and I respect you enough to be truely shocked to hear this from you.

It's late and I'm very tired and yet also rather busy so I'll make the rude suggestion that you might want to super search for nodes by me regarding newline + $/ + \n + \r (not because I'm the only one who has anything useful to say on that subject, but because even using all of those terms, I suspect you'd otherwise get a lot to sort through while I'm sure I have several treatments of these all-too-common misconceptions under my name).

Update: Struck out one search term to yield a more interesting search. Though the meat of it is mostly collected in Re^4: Line Feeds (rumor control).

- tye        

In reply to Re^4: Special behavior for LF and CR in RegExs? (Ah! No!!) by tye
in thread Special behavior for LF and CR in RegExs? by Argel

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