I was thinking find() will select everything that match() does and more. So it may return data that someone used to the current behavior is not expecting, which could break existing code that uses it. For example ".*foo" would select "cfooa" with find() but not with match().
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Michael Flester <[email protected]> wrote: > Keith -- > > Switching from match to find should be no change for anyone that is > currently using it. > All patterns that "match" will equally "find". But new users would be able > to take advantage > of not adding the wildcards on both ends. > > Mike > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Keith Turner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Michael Flester <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:57 PM, John Vines <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> And when dealing with java, it does full matches, so adding the .* to >> >> start and end is necessary. >> >> >> > >> > Java has both Matcher#matches and Matcher#find. The latter would operate >> > more >> > like the egrep(1) command without requiring the wildcards on both ends. >> >> Ah, It should have used the find() call when it was first written. >> Changing it now would be tricky because people who expect the current >> behavior could get unexpected results. I think we are kinda stuck >> with the current behavior. Could possibly add an option to use >> find() instead of match(). > >
