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I didn't know the Latin meaning. Makes more sense in the context of regex, now.
Maybe kinda? With matching the start of a line, it makes as much sense as $ matching EOL.
Yeah, not the start of line, but the inverse of the "any" pattern.
Yeah. We learned it as Circonflexe anyway, right? I know that carried from high school into coding well before I heard the Latin ;-)
Circonflexe? Haven't heard that name in a long time...
TIL in French it's "circonflexe" and English it's "circumflex".
I'm guessin this is another Daniel Webster moment.