The regexp pattern characters ^ and $ should be explained as matching

at the beginning and end of the input string, not the beginning and end
of "a line", since Postgres does not allow them to match at newline
characters in the data.
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Tom Lane 2001-03-25 18:14:31 +00:00
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<chapter id="functions">
<title>Functions and Operators</title>
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expression), an empty set of <literal>()</literal> (matching the
null string), a <firstterm>bracket expression</firstterm> (see
below), <literal>.</literal> (matching any single character),
<literal>^</literal> (matching the null string at the beginning of
a line), <literal>$</literal> (matching the null string at the end
of a line), a <literal>\</literal> followed by one of the
<literal>^</literal> (matching the null string at the beginning of the
input string), <literal>$</literal> (matching the null string at the end
of the input string), a <literal>\</literal> followed by one of the
characters <literal>^.[$()|*+?{\</literal> (matching that
character taken as an ordinary character), a <literal>\</literal>
followed by any other character (matching that character taken as