Johan Sundström (Achtung Liebe!) @ Pike (-) developers forum 10353@lyskom.lysator.liu.se wrote:

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If you don't have a PCRE enabled Pike, then there should be a solution with Regexp(). But it seems like there's a little bug with $ on Regexp(), but one bug at a time :)

Not if it is the stone age Regexp(), as that one did/does not handle strings with null characters in it (except in cases where you really *want* it to treat \0 as end-of-string).

Interresting to know.

\0 could be replaced beforehand using replace(), then Regexp() used. Even in this case, i guess we have a problem:

^ works: ----8<----8<----8<----8<----

string bar = "oofoo"; Regexp("^[o]+")->replace(bar, "");

(1) Result: "foo" ---->8---->8---->8---->8----

While $ seems not: ----8<----8<----8<----8<----

Regexp("[o]+$")->replace(bar, "");

(2) Result: "f" ---->8---->8---->8---->8----