Meta-characters to match against certain string boundaries

   

Meta-Character            Matches

^                         Beginning of the line

$                         End of the line

\b                        A word boundary

\B                        A nonword boundary

\A                        The beginning of the input

\G                        The end of the previous match

\Z                        The end of the input before any line terminators (such as carriage-return or linefeed)

\z                        The end of the input

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