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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times when someone called
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> wrote the following on a
fine sunny Thursday in October:

> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
<snip>
>> You can construct a RegExp from a string:
>> 
>>   RegExp(pre + '\\d+$').test(tmp)
>
> First of all, the original regular expression does _not_ match strings that 
> *start* with “trigger_”; it matches all those that *contain* “trigger_” 
> followed by a sequence of decimal digits, because the “^” anchor is
> missing.

Yes.  Have you considered switching to answering questions?  You'd be
good at it.

<snip more good stuff that I happened to know>
-- 
Ben.