I'm the same, but now that I try in Perl, sure enough, $ seems to default to being a positive lookahead assertion for the end of the string. It does not match a

I'm the same, but now that I try in Perl, sure enough, $ seems to default to being a positive lookahead assertion for the end of the string. It does not match and consume an EOL character. Only in multiline mode does it match EOL characters, but it does still not appear to consume them. In fact, I cannot construct a regex that captures the last character of one line, then consumes the newline, and then captures the first character of the next line, while using $. The capture group simply ends at $.