Re: VSoup and Killfile

Arnoud (galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:01:51 +0200

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In article <4xmQycun8rIU092yn@ibm.net>,
rgriech@ibm.net (Hardy Griech) wrote:
> Yes, it uses regular expressions! I am wondering why the above
> expression is killing any '$50,000' article, because the '$' means
> 'matching end of line'...

It only means that if it's the *last* character in the regexp. If
it is followed by any data characters, it should be taken as the
literal character '$'.

I believed this is covered by 'man ed' and 'man grep'.

Galactus

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