<![CDATA[pdfgrep: undocumented regex redefinition of “^” and “$”. Ooof! Reported 9 yrs ago and ppl still getting stung.]]>

<![CDATA[pdfgrep: undocumented regex redefinition of “^” and “$”. Ooof! Reported 9 yrs ago and ppl still getting stung.]]>(Apologies for publicly posting a link into Cloudflare’s walled-garden, but archive.org comes up empty.)

The linked bug report shows that astonishing but deliberate regular expression treatment was reported 9 years ago. Still today I spent time trying to work out why my regular expression was not matching only to find that the dev hi-jacked the meaning of ^ and $ for another purpose. Man page still neglects to warn users.

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