Regular Expression Anomaly #1: ^ character

[walt.farrell]

Experimenting with regular expression Find/Replace, I discovered an anomaly using the ^ character, which should match the beginning of a line.

I started with this text:

and did a search for a very simple regular expression: just the ^ character and nothing else.

From my previous regex experience, this should match:

1. Before the first paragraph break
2. Before O in Off
3. Before R in Riding
4. Before i in into

Instead, based on the resulting cursor position in each case, it matched:

1. Before the first paragraph break
2. Again, before the first paragraph break
3. Before the second paragraph break
4. Before the line break
5. Before the last paragraph break (but in the find results, it was after the last paragraph break)

 

 

find-caret.afpub

[Jon P]

Hi Walt,

Apologies for the delay in our response!

This seems to be alright for me in 1.7.2, unless my expectations are wrong?

I've attached a replace a did on the occurrences it found.

[lacerto]

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