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user2342 on March 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string"

I'm confused by this blog-post. In the table: what is the reg-ex pattern tested and against which input?

mnw21cam on March 20, 2024 [–]

The input being matched is "cat\n" and the regex pattern is one of:

  "cat$" with multiline enabled
  "cat$" with multiline disabled
  "cat\z"
  "cat\Z"

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