Regex broken??

[Stephen Davies]

On 09/07/14 13:47, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 07/08/2014 08:47 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
>> Any ideas?
>
> Any details?
For example,

/^xx

or

:g/^xx/s/xx/yy/

in vi finds nothing in a file with many lines starting with xx.

Similarly grep -E "^xx" and gawk '/^xx/{print}'.

In all cases, omitting the ^ finds the relevant lines (plus a whole lot more).

Difference: one with and one without regex.

HTH,
Stephen

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