Re: Self-recognizing programs and regular expressions

[email protected] ((Ton Hospel)) Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:46:00 +0000 (UTC)

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In article <[email protected]>,
	[email protected] writes:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:27:53PM +0000, Ton Hospel wrote:
>> An infinite sequence of ^ matches only itself....
> 
> Actually, any sequence of ^ matches any string, since ^ simply matches the
> beginning of the string.
> 
> Ronald
Indeed. For some reason I was thinking only the first ^ meant start of
string and the rest is literal. Not so of course.