<p>The ^ and $ are not part of the matched expression, but boundaries to constrain the matching.</p>
<p>Therefore I think the current behaviour is more intuitive for one working with regular expressions. Note that the end of string can be either \r, \n or 0x0 -- your proposal to add after the boundary constraint can mean that for other cases should be added after 0x0.</p>
<p>You can eventually add a new function, but the current one should stay as it is (or get new parameters to control the behaviour).</p>

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