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Welcome to the RegEx community! This is a place where you can learn about and get help with regular expressions

A regular expression is a sequence of characters that specifies a match pattern in text. Theyre usually used for find, or find and replace operations on strings, or for input validation.

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Why do regexes use $ and ^ as line anchors? (buttondown.email)
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[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

Why not ask Ken himself?