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influx 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string"

GNU grep supports Perl regexp with -P

1letterunixname 10 months ago | [–]

Using PCRE2, which doesn't behave exactly the same as Perl or PCRE1.

https://pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2compat.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Compatible_Regular_Expres...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70273084/regex-differenc...

mwpmaybe 10 months ago | [–]

As does git grep!

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