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<chapter id="functions">
<title>Functions and Operators</title>
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