Problem with start of line "^" RE and subst

[email protected] Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:05:27 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.regexp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

I have the problem that I receive urls without "http://" part, so I used 
"^" as match and "http://" as replacement in RE.subst

No that I call myre.subst("test.me","http://") it comes out as 
"http://est.me" and the "t" is missing. 

What's wrong? 

Harry