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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:38:46 +0000
From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: regexp-replace and ^, word boundary or look-behind operators
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2019-12-16 21:27:06 +0000, Stephane Chazelas:
[...]
> PCRE should be OK, so it could be just a matter of
> exposing it via the pcre_match builtin
[...]

D'oh, it's there already with the -b, -n options.

I'll try and suggest a regexp-replace improvement using that.

-- 
Stephane