Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> Apparently, Joel VanderWerf recently wrote:
> 
>>p /\AQ/ =~ "aQ"    # ==> nil
>>p /\A=|Q/ =~ "aQ"  # ==> 1
> 
> 
> \A means beginning of the string (mostly the same as ^, except in
> multiline mode), and it is lower precidence than |

Ah, thanks. I always expect | to have a higher prec than most other things.