trivial regex question (the answer is most probably Java-specific):

"#This is a comment in a file".matches("^#")

This returns false. As far as I can see, ^ means what it always means and # has no special meaning, so I'd translate ^# as "A '#' at the beginning of the string". Which should match. And so it does, in Perl:

perl -e "print '#This is a comment'=~/^#/;"

prints "1". So I'm pretty sure the answer is something Java specific. Would somebody please enlighten me?

Thank you.

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