Regex Anchors
Explore regex anchors in Perl to control match positions at the start and end of strings and word boundaries. Understand the differences between common anchors like ^, $, \A, \z, and the Unicode-aware \b{wb}. This lesson helps you write precise and efficient regular expressions using anchor concepts.
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It’s important to know how the regex engine handles greedy matches, but it’s equally as important to know what kind of matches we want. Regex anchors force the regex engine to start or end a match at a fixed position.
Start and end anchors
The start of string anchor \A dictates that any match ...