Regex searching with ^ does not seem to work properly

[pangoSE]

Reproduce:
Download from overpass: image~/commons\.wikimedia\.org/ in schleswig-holstein
Search using this expression for image= tags which begin the correct url and do not already have a wikimedia_commons tag:
image="^https://commons.*" -wikimedia_commons

The search returns image tags which start with another url:
see image

According to the referenced regex in the wiki: ​http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html it should work to only match "beginning of a line".

[pangoSE]

Also reported here in 2015: ​https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/46917/josm-search-function-regex-use-and-samples

[simon04]

I cannot reproduce using attachment:2020-01-20-203118_1119x513_scrot.png​​

Please provide a small data set and a search query to illustrate the problem.

[pangoSE]

Hi! Thanks a lot for your attention to this. I just found out that I might have misunderstood the drop-down dialog (the values of the selection are italic with number of occurences afterwards). I'm sorry for the noise, we can close this.