Re: VSoup and Killfile

Hardy Griech (rgriech@ibm.net)
Sat, 21 Sep 1996 00:06:18 +0200

On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:01:51 +0200,
galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet) wrote:
:
> 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 '$'.
:

This is not absolutely clear from documentation. Therefor I think one
should take '$' behaviour as undefined if characters are following.
As an example RexExp description from Emacs:

`$'
is similar to `^' but matches only at the end of a line. Thus,
`xx*$' matches a string of one or more `x''s at the end of a line.

This means, if you want to match a '$', you should escape it with a
preceding '\'.

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