From: quinn_jackson2004@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Tangel  wrote:   
      
   > But when the regexp is /a*/, and the buffer is "aaaaa",   
   > after the pre-precessing, "\naaaaa\n" is not acceptable for /a*/.   
      
   The key here is that the state-machine must equate both \n and the   
   start state with a beginning-of-line state and \n and the final   
   no-more-input with the end-of-line state. In this way you no longer   
   need to pad the input with sentinels.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Quinn   
      
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