Regex - start of line (^) only works if start of file!

[Dave F]

Hi
Regex - start of line (^) only works if start of file

Unsure what I'm misunderstanding here. Using latest FC Public.

I have a text file (Notepad++ with all characters on)


This search returns empty with no error log.



If I swap them so PAT is the first line the same search returns the file.
I've tried it with other files/text/length etc with the same results.

I'm using this post as confirmation the regex start of line character is a '^'
viewtopic.php?p=28771#p28771

[zaphod7]

I can confirm this behaviour.
See also my post here: viewtopic.php?t=12597
Interesting that it works if it's the first line in a file.