On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 0:04 am, Nicolas François wrote: > The next release man page should contain: > > In regular expression terms: ^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]?$
The ^ character at the very beginning (start of line) and the $ character at the end (end of line) confused me for a while. Since we are not considering whole lines here I wouldn't mention them.