Anchoring a RE in a string

[Doug Lewan]

Currently I'm trying to check the /beginning/ of a multi-line string with a 
regular expression.
The scenario looks like this:

(string-match "^\\s-+ABCD"
              "qwer\n    zxcv\n    ABCD")
                                            ^ Matches here.

I want it to fail because the beginning doesn't match.
I hadn't expected the anchor (^) to match inside the string.

I can't be the only one to have wanted to do this.
What's the right way.

Thanks.

,Douglas
Douglas Lewan
Shubert Ticketing
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