RegEx 104-Using Anchors in AutoHotkey Regular Expressions

Anchors in AutoHotkey Regular ExpressionsA white stress ball with the green AutoHotkey logo being held in a hand, with a laptop keyboard blurred in the backgroundRegular Expressions are amazing but can also slow-down your AutoHotkey script.  Being able to us Anchors in AutoHotkey Regular Expressions are great ways to minimize false matches and speed-up your pattern matching!  The best part is they are very easy to use, just begin your search with a ^ to anchor your search at the beginning or use the $ to anchor it to the end of the line.   Also don’t forget to enable multi-line as 90% of the time you’re using Anchors you’ll be wanting to treat each line as a separate entity.

Video demonstrating using Anchors in AutoHotkey Regular Expressions

Woman holding a white water bottle with a green AutoHotkey logo and green cap, sitting on grass

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