Why cant u just use gr instead of ^gr

Question

In regular expression characters

Answer 1

<p> Kevin</p>, in your example there won't be a match because ^amasa$ means that the whole string has to be amasa and there can't be anything before (^) or after ($) that. ^ and $ refer to the whole string, not to the regex pattern. You could match the string ImamasaHere with a pattern like ^Im(.*?)re$ .

gr will match a string if gr is anywhere in the string:

"great" <= match
"not great" <= match

^gr means that the string has to begin with gr:

"great" <= match
"not great" <= no match

Answer 2

^ symbol, indicate that start. and $ as the end.

lets say i have a pattern "amasa", with string " ImamasaHere". the result will be the same using search.

i want only "amasa"... so... the pattern is " ^amasaquot;.

i hope its help