Even disregarding whether or not end-of-string is also an end-of-line or not (see all the other comments below), $ doesn't match the newline, similar to zero-wi

Even disregarding whether or not end-of-string is also an end-of-line or not (see all the other comments below), $ doesn't match the newline, similar to zero-width matches like \b, so the newline wouldn't be included in the matched text either way. I think this series of comments might be clearest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764385