Chambers wrote:
> Hey all, I know it's been a while since I've posted here, but I also know there
> are some regex wizards who read these groups...
> 
> I never bothered learning regular expressions, but we're going over them for one
> of my classes, and I'm having trouble searching for strings at the end of a line
> with $.
> 
> As I understand it, $ matches for the end of the line.  Fine.  When I search
> just for $, I get every line (as I should).
> 
> However, when I try to append $ onto any other expression, I don't get a single
> match - not one - when I know there should be some.  For instance, the
> following:
> ing[.]$
> 
> Should search for any line ending in "ing."  Searching just for "ing[.]" returns
> the hits I want (plus a few more), but "ing[.]$" doesn't return a single hit.
> 
> Any tips as to what I'm doing wrong?
>  
Pattern "ing[.]$" matches exactly as you expected,
when applied to the text with Unix-style line endings (\n),
but for Win-style line endings (\r\n) it
doesn't match your input.

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