[ragel-users] Newbie question - regarding anchoring

[Adrian Thurston]

Hi,

Ragel does not employ a regular expression matching engine, just a
simple state machine which begins operation at the start of the input
string. Since it does not attempt to match a pattern at every input
position you don't need ^ to restrict the pattern to the beginning of an
input string.

Cheers,
 Adrian

gautham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to Ragel. I am trying out different regular expressions to
> gain more familiariaty.
> 
> I am unable to write a regex which is matched only when it is found at
> the beginning of the input string. For example, the regex should match
> "hello world start" and not match "world hello start".
> 
> I tried using "^hello" - similar to lex/awk, but the "^" seems to be
> interpreted literally.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -gautham
> 
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