At 16:14 +0200 on 16/9/98, Sferacarta Software wrote:
> regular expression operators ^ stand for first character and $ stand
> for last character:
>
> ~* '^india$'
>
> matches India
> india
> INDIA
>
> but not Indiana
> New India
Another way to think of it is like this:
'india' is eqivalent to "contains 'india'"
'^india' is eqivalent to "starts with 'india'"
'india$' is eqivalent to "ends with 'india'"
'^india$' is eqivalent to "is exactly 'india'"
Herouth
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Herouth Maoz, Internet developer.
Open University of Israel - Telem project
http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma