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?

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