On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:05:35AM -0000, Nick Barr wrote:
> If the ^ was not there then it could theoretically match anywhere in the
> string. In this particular case the regular expression will probably
> match at the beginning of the string anyway, so it is not really
> necessary. I prefer to put that sort of thing in to make it clear to the
> programmer what is going on.
Isn't there also a performance benefit as you can use an index if you
say "this definitely starts at the beginning" with the '^'?
Cheers,
Patrick
