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		SkiFire13 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repo... Sometimes I wish regexes were full matches by default and required prefixing and postfixing with `.*` to get the current behaviour

chuckadams 5 days ago | [–]

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

ruined 6 days ago | [–]

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

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