I'm confused by Perl's regex abilities. There seems to be a lot of duplicate flags: ^ and \A both match the beginning of a string. $ and \Z both match the end. It seems redundant and confusing. I'm ...

If you’ve programmed in Perl or any other language with built-in regular-expression capabilities, then you probably know how much easier regular expressions make text processing and pattern matching.

Hello all,<BR><BR> I am having trouble getting a PERL Regex to work and I was hoping you guys could be kind enough to help.<BR><BR>Essentially I have filenames in sentences that I want to check for ...