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Posted to regexp-dev@jakarta.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2001/09/20 23:37:04 UTC

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 3753] - RE matches when it shouldn't

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RE matches when it shouldn't

dfs@apache.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID



------- Additional Comments From dfs@apache.org  2001-09-20 14:37 -------
match() does not require the entire input to match.  It attempts to match
some portion of the input.  The pattern ".*\\." does in fact match the "."
in ".x"  If you want the entire input to match, try "^.*\\.$" as your
pattern.