• lemmonade@lemm.ee
    112·
    1 year ago

    You could also say that down should not complete to download since those are completely different strings and you shouldn’t expect one to get you the other.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
        62·
        1 year ago

        Substring is not string.

        If they were interchangeable, then “D” & “d” should be too.

        • Feyter@programming.devM
          2·
          1 year ago

          down matches down* because * also includes empty string. Also download matches down*

          D matches D* but d is not matching D* because D is a different character than d.

          • lemmonade@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            but why do we have to match specifically against substr*? it’s not a law of nature, we could also match against the regex (?i)substr(?-i).*

            not saying that one option is necessarily better, but I don’t see a good reason for which it any one of these options is terrible