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You don't really need a regex here, but you should escape the start-of-string sign: <\^>.

Kobi
– Kobi

2010-04-12 12:10:06 +00:00
Commented Apr 12, 2010 at 12:10
@Kobi: Thanks. I didn't actually expect that and thought I only need to escape ^ in character groups. Tried it and you're obviously correct. Fixed the post.

Benjamin Podszun
– Benjamin Podszun

2010-04-12 12:16:03 +00:00
Commented Apr 12, 2010 at 12:16
Quite the opposite - character groups is the one place you normally don't have to escape characters.

Kobi
– Kobi

2010-04-12 12:18:42 +00:00
Commented Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18
@Kobi: But ^ is starting a negative character group - so I thought of that usage and somehow assumed that it won't act as anchor in the middle of the text. My bad. Thanks again.

Benjamin Podszun
– Benjamin Podszun

2010-04-12 12:39:52 +00:00
Commented Apr 12, 2010 at 12:39

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