Re: Regular Expression match too much

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Re^2: Regular Expression match too much by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:13 UTC
N.B.: If `$criteria` were a precompiled regex rather than a string being interpolated, the grouping parentheses would not be necessary. Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Regular Expression match too much by enemyofthestate (Monk) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:11 UTC
`m/^(?:$criteria)\z/` [download] That was it! Thank you.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Regular Expression match too much by thor (Priest) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:35 UTC
Just out of curiostiy, why did you use \z and with ^ instead of \A? thor `The only easy day was yesterday`	[reply]
Re^3: Regular Expression match too much by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:41 UTC
Little code &mdash I don't recall ever seeing any &mdash uses `\A` and `\Z` for regexps without `/m`. This is probably because the alternatives `^` and `$` stand out more. I didn't see any reason for breaking this convention. If `\a` was an alias for `\A`, I would have used that.	[reply] [d/l] [select]