Anchoring Metacharacters : Anchors « Regular Expression « Perl






Anchoring Metacharacters

    

Metacharacter   What It Matches
^               Matches to beginning of line or beginning of string
$               Matches to end of line or end of a string
\A              Matches the beginning of the string only
\Z              Matches the end of the string or line
\z              Matches the end of string only
\G              Matches where previous m//g left off
\b              Matches a word boundary (when not inside [ ])
\B              Matches a nonword boundary

   
    
    
    
  








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