Re: pcre regex

The ^ and $ around the regex mean that it only matches a whole string. If you want to search for matches inside a string, leave out those anchors.

See perlretut for more details.

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Re^2: pcre regex by Anonymous Monk on Apr 06, 2012 at 10:56 UTC
how do i substitute ^ and $ in my regex	[reply]
Re^3: pcre regex by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 06, 2012 at 11:28 UTC
Well, what semantics do you want? If you just want to remove the restriction that the regex has to match the whole string, remove them. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]
Re^4: pcre regex by Anonymous Monk on Apr 06, 2012 at 11:36 UTC
I substituted and changed ^ and $ but still not getting matches `(?<=)\d{4}[A-Z0-9](?=)` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: pcre regex by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 06, 2012 at 11:40 UTC
Re^5: pcre regex by bart (Canon) on Apr 06, 2012 at 12:00 UTC