earthquake changes of std.regexp to come

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok.  I'm certainly not in love with the API either.  Though, the only
> RegEx API I've ever used that felt totally comfortable with was
> Perl's, which in large part is syntax instead of an API.  Python's
> syntax I have to look over the documentation every time I use it, too.
>  Maybe it's because of the "matching" vs "searching" distinction that
> I find impossible to remember.
> (http://docs.python.org/library/re.html)
>

Is there ever a situation where you want to use a single regexp for
both matching _and_ searching?  And if not, couldn't you just use ^ to
anchor it?  I never understood why Python's API makes such a
distinction.