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bug#71252: why does grep match literal newlines when there are none, eve
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#71252: why does grep match literal newlines when there are none, even with -z? |
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Sun, 09 Jun 2024 16:37:59 +0200 |
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On Mai 30 2024, Philippe Cerfon wrote:
> Now GNU grep says "The empty regular expression matches the empty string.".
> Yet it still matches "foo" in the example above, which clearly is not empty.
It matches the empty string *anywhere* in the text. The match is not
anchored.
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