That was what I thought when reading, too, but it seems to work.:

> perl -e '$a="abcd"; print "yes\n" if $a =~ "^abc";'
yes
> perl -e '$a="abcd"; print "yes\n" if $a =~ "^yyy";'
>
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Strange, anyone knows more about this?

alex pleiner <alex@zeitform.de>
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