Forum: NGINX Can I really assume location match start with / ?

From the doc, it said..

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location  / {
  # matches any query, since all queries begin with /, but regular
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But I am wondering, if it always start with /, why not use ^ instead?

e.g.

location  ^/ {
location ^/documents/ {

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Ryan Chan <ryanchan404@gmail.com> 
wrote:
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That'd require regexp.