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Re: expect module


Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> `$' only appears to have this behavior, according to the regcomp
> documentation, when the REG_NEWLINE flag is passed:
> 
> : `REG_NEWLINE'
> :      Treat a newline in STRING as dividing STRING into multiple lines,
> :      so that `$' can match before the newline and `^' can match after.
> :      Also, don't permit `.' to match a newline, and don't permit
> :      `[^...]' to match a newline.
> : 
> :      Otherwise, newline acts like any other ordinary character.

Sigh... so much for intuition.  I should have looked it up instead of
relying on it---sorry.