replace regular expression problem

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From: Charles Blair
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 23:58

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   The following has been observed in version 18.58.4 and 18.59 on
a mainframe and a PC using linux.

C-x-f creating a file named junk with a single line AAAA, followed
by M-x-replace-regexp changing ^AA to the empty expression leads
to an empty line, rather than AA.

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