Ray Denenberg writes:
 > > Making it impossible to distinguish between:
 > > "^start     end^"
 > > and:
 > > "^start end^"
 > 
 > As I said, a different anchor character is waranted. 

No; anchoring is a red herring.  "eq" is the equality relation.

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