Subject: bug#71252: why does grep match literal newlines when there are none, even with -z?

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 16:37:59 +0200

On Mai 30 2024, Philippe Cerfon wrote:

> Now GNU grep says "The empty regular expression matches the empty string.".
> Yet it still matches "foo" in the example above, which clearly is not empty.

It matches the empty string *anywhere* in the text.  The match is not
anchored.

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