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From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-14 08:12:28


John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > I see that Regex++ always treats ^ and $ as start and end of line
> > rather than start and end of buffer. Perl does this only if the /m
> > switch is used. Is there a simple way to switch between these two
> > interpretations when compiling a regex?
>
> No but you can use \A and \z for that purpose.

I know that, but I want to be able to interpret user-supplied regexes
either way. Maybe I can pre-process them to substitute ^ and $, but
that seems awkward.


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