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TIL: The caret anchor (^) matches differently in Python and Ruby

TIL: You can reset the start of a regex in Ruby

The \K escape is the “Match-Reset Anchor”, which resets the start of the reported match, and skip any previously consumed characters.

What does \d match in a regex?

It’s more complicated than I thought.

Treat regular expressions as code, not magic

Regexes have a reputation for being unreadable monsters, but it doesn’t have to be that way.