Hi every 1
I know this sound like a mostly theoretical "I wondered" question,
but I actually got a practical reason (long to explain) to ask this:
is there a value of $reg which will return true by $emp =~ /$reg/;
when and only when $emp is an empty string ?

Thx

Update:
My personal definition of an empty string is zero-length.
Technically it doesn't include undef, as it isn't a string, but its irrelevant for my use.

Update: problem resolved.
It seems to me that ^\z and \A\z function the same way,
but as \z seems better than $ for this purposeת>נר< I'll assume the same for their counterparts and go with \A\z over ^\z.
(unless one of you will find another loophole ^^)

But regardless thanks all around :]

In reply to Is there a regex match for an empty string ? by palkia

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