The following regular expression characters cause a match to succeed or fail depending on the position of the match within the text.
Example: The regular expression ^FTP returns only those occurrences of the character string "FTP" that occur at the beginning of a line.
| Regular Expression | Description |
|---|---|
| ^ | The match must occur at the beginning of the text or the beginning of the line. |
| $ | The match must occur at the end of the text, before \n at the end of the text, or at the end of the line. |
| \A | The match must occur at the beginning of the text (ignores the Multiline option).* |
| \Z | The match must occur at the end of the text or before \n at the end of the text (ignores the Multiline option).* |
| \G | The match must occur at the point where the previous match ended. When used with Match.NextMatch(), this ensures that matches are all contiguous.* |