Anchor regexes and escape potential metachars [#14] #220
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Also add note that the underlying code in the linkchecker uses `re.match()` to evaluate the regular expression, so there's already an implicit start of string anchor in effect, and something like `r'google'` will _NOT_ match anything.
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Also add note that the underlying code in the linkchecker uses
re.match()to evaluate the regular expression, so there's already an implicit start of string anchor in effect, and something liker'google'will NOT match anything.