[clug] Circumflex

[Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet)]

Thanks, Eyal:

> In a regular expression the '^' (at the start) indicates that the 
> matching expression must be at the
> beginning of the examined string:

{
More special characters ^$

Used outside of the square brackets the ^ and $ sign will have new 
meanings. And yes, this is a big part of why Regex is a bit confusing to 
start up with. Instead of the ^ meaning “not these characters” it means 
“start of the string”.
}

http://webagility.com/posts/the-basics-of-regex-explained

I could use drill and practice exercises.
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