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Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes: > I think it is more natural generally for `$' to match end-of-string, > as there are other ways to match newlines, and it is useful to match > end-of-string on strings that contain newlines. I thought `$' had a very well defined meaning in regular expressions: matching the empty string at the end of a line. It seems that giving it a new interpretation could confuse people. It seems intuitive that the end of a string is regarded as the end of a line, but it also seems intuitive that a string containing several newline characters is regarded as consisting of several lines and, thus, that $ should match the empty string before each of those newline characters.