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Author	gregory.p.smith
Recipients	ezio.melotti, gregory.p.smith, matthew.suozzo, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2022-02-05.02:36:29
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What do other APIs in widely used languages do with regex terminology? We appear to be the only popular language who anchors to the start of a string with an API named "match". libpcre C: uses "match" to mean what we call "search" - https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2_match.html Go: Uses "Match" to mean what we call "search" - https://pkg.go.dev/regexp#Match JavaScript: Uses "match" to mean what we call "search" - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/match Java: Uses "matches" (I think meaning what we call fullmatch?) - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html C++ RE2: explicit "FullMatch" and "PartialMatch" APIs - https://github.com/google/re2 Jave re2j: uses "matches" like Java regex.Pattern - https://github.com/google/re2j Ruby: Uses "match" as we do "search" - https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.4.0/Regexp.html Rust: Uses match as we do "search" - https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/

What do other APIs in widely used languages do with regex terminology?  We appear to be the only popular language who anchors to the start of a string with an API named "match".

libpcre C: uses "match" to mean what we call "search" - https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2_match.html

Go: Uses "Match" to mean what we call "search" - https://pkg.go.dev/regexp#Match

JavaScript: Uses "match" to mean what we call "search" - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/match

Java: Uses "matches" (I think meaning what we call fullmatch?) - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

C++ RE2: explicit "FullMatch" and "PartialMatch" APIs - https://github.com/google/re2 

Jave re2j: uses "matches" like Java regex.Pattern - https://github.com/google/re2j 

Ruby: Uses "match" as we do "search" - https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.4.0/Regexp.html

Rust: Uses match as we do "search" - https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/

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Date	User	Action	Args
2022-02-05 02:36:29	gregory.p.smith	set	recipients: + gregory.p.smith, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka, matthew.suozzo
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