Robert Sanderson wrote:

> I suggest ^ and $ as recognisable anchoring characters.

I'll  need to go back to the ZIG and say " 'scuse me but we've changed our
minds once again; disregard the word masking proposal and please add ^ and $
as left and right anchors."

I'm willing to do it but I hope this is really what we want.

Do these mask words for word indexes and strings for string indexes?

--Ray