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0 pointsSkiFire135mo ago0 comments

Sometimes I wish regexes were full matches by default and required prefixing and postfixing with `.*` to get the current behaviour

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Java's Pattern.match() method works that way. Python has two separate methods: re.match auto-anchors, re.search does not.

ruined5mo ago

a match isn't boolean, it's substring. the original (and more common) use-cases would become excessively verbose

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