[kernel 0000571]: REGEX \A doesn't work

[jda]

>On 3/20/05 5:11 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:
>
>>  This note is correct -- escaping \A works.
>>
>>  BUT, when I try all the other REGEX commnds, like \Z or \b, they work
>>  with whether or not they are escaped!
>>
>>  So it seems like this is a bug with \A. No?
>
>This is not bug. You MUST ESCAPE.
>
>Strange that \b works. May be it only looks to you that it works ?
>

\Z also works...

And I did check \b to make sure it only found a word boundary. It did.

What about \r, \t, \n? Are these supposed to require escaping, too?

Jon