> Actually, \n's are the one thing that the $ anchor doesn't
> work exactly right on. Usually it's not a huge deal, but
> Perl will still match a line that has a \n after the part
> that you are trying to match if you use $ to anchor. This is
> normally very useful, as in the case of a line of text being
> read from a file. Without this behavior you would have to
> put a \n at the end of all of your regexes. So:
>
> $radentry =~ /\n\n$/;
>
> will match "\n\n" and "\n\n\n"
>
> To fix this problem, you should remember the \Z anchor, which
> matches only the end of a string.
>
> $radentry =~ /\n\n\Z/;
>From perldoc perlre:
\Z Match only at end of string, or before newline at the end
\z Match only at end of string
Should be:
$radentry =~ /\n\n\z/;
To match two newlines at the end of $radentry.
-dave
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