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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Confusion in working of carat(^) symbol Post 303009851 by scriptor on Thursday 21st of December 2017 05:50:11 AM
Old 12-21-2017
Confusion in working of carat(^) symbol

hi All,

i have googled and found that below are the functionality of carat symbol
Meaning of carat is
Code:
"at the beginning of line"; 
"it can also negate matches"

how do i know when carat is behaving as beginning of line or as a negate.

regards,
scriptor
 

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MALSYM(1)						      Malaga quick reference							 MALSYM(1)

NAME
malsym - compile a Malaga symbol file SYNOPSIS
malsym symbol-file malsym extended-symbol-file -use symbol-file DESCRIPTION
Malaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism. Malaga grammars can be used for automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis. The program malsym compiles a Malaga symbol file. Give it the symbol file (suffix .sym or .esym) that is to be translated as argument. If an extended-symbol-file (suffix .esym) is to be compiled, you must add the option -use. See info Malaga for details. OPTIONS
-h[elp] Print a help text about malsym's command line arguments and exit. -u[se] symbol-file Use the already compiled symbol-file as the base symbol file when compiling an extended symbol file. -v[ersion] Print malsym's version number and exit. AUTHORS
Malaga has been developed by Bjoern Beutel. Numerous other people distributed to it. This manpage was originally written for the Debian distribution by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho. SEE ALSO
malaga(1), mallex(1), malmake(1), malrul(1), malshow(1) ``Malaga 7, User's and Programmer's Manual''. Available in Debian systems via info Malaga, and, if the malaga-doc package is installed, in various formats (DVI, Postscript, PDF, HTML) under /usr/share/doc/malaga-doc/. Malaga 26 September 2006 MALSYM(1)
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