utils_match: Let '^' and '$' affect lines rather than the full string.

The regcomp() flag REG_NEWLINE is required for that, even though regex(7)
might make people think otherwise.

diff --git a/src/utils_match.c b/src/utils_match.c
index e4240eab607c497f8ff61444cc2c953e1e50b7d6..2aaeb963bc5451cb3f7c403e0edd75353be53701 100644 (file)
--- a/src/utils_match.c
+++ b/src/utils_match.c
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ cu_match_t *match_create_callback (const char *regex,
     return (NULL);
   memset (obj, '\0', sizeof (cu_match_t));
 
-  status = regcomp (&obj->regex, regex, REG_EXTENDED);
+  status = regcomp (&obj->regex, regex, REG_EXTENDED | REG_NEWLINE);
   if (status != 0)
   {
     ERROR ("Compiling the regular expression \"%s\" failed.", regex);