On 1/15/07, slushpupie at gmail.com <slushpupie at gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/15/07, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > I had forgotten that this was about a python regexp. Still, I mostly use > > perl and I am interested personally in understanding this better. I can't > > get it to mess up. For example: > > > > # echo 'abcd efgh' | gawk '{print $1"\n\n"$2}' | perl -pe 's/$^/X/ms' > > abcd > > > > efgh > > > > What am I doing wrong? I can't figure out how to get "$^" to match > > anything. > Bah. After a little more careful reading, ^ and $ match just before and after a newline. Not the newline itself. Therefore it is impossible to have $^ match anything. -- Jay Kline http://www.slushpupie.com/