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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.

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Feyter@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sorry, down is a substring of download I don’t get your point either?

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- Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Substring is not string.
  
  If they were interchangeable, then “D” & “d” should be too.
  
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  - Feyter@programming.dev ⁨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.
    
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    lemmonade@lemm.ee ⁨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
    
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