WAD Regex Analyzer

[samintz]

When I enter this regex: [A-Za-z0-9_]+

The analyzer says Hello World matches. That makes sense because it is matching Hello and ignoring the space and World at the end.

If I change the regex to [A-Za-z0-9_]+$
The analyzer shows green check until I hit the space (Hello<space>) then it shows red X. However, if I continue to type World, it changes back to green check.

Since the space is not part of the allowed characters, why is it succeeding?

-Scott

 

[samintz]

Never mind. User error. Second example was matching the end of the expression and ignoring the beginning.
Changing the regex to ^[A-Za-z0-9_]+$ did the trick.