Re: behaviour of Perl5Matcher.matches doesn't seem to properly take care of alternatives.

> Everything's okay.  You did the right thing.  From the javadocs:
I sincerely apologize. I didn't read the docs.. just assumed matches() 
would do what Matcher.matches() of jdk1.5 does.

Though I do believe this is a bit non-intuitive. What would be the 
practical use of having such a method ?


Thanks for making such a great library!
Regards,
Tarun


> 
>      Note: matches() is not the same as sticking a ^ in front of your
>      expression and a $ at the end of your expression in Perl5 and
>      using the =~ operator, even though in many cases it will be
>      equivalent. matches() literally looks for an exact match
>      according to the rules of Perl5 expression matching. Therefore,
>      if you have a pattern foo|foot and are matching the input foot
>      it will not produce an exact match. But foot|foo will produce an
>      exact match for either foot or foo. Remember, Perl5 regular
>      expressions do not match the longest possible match. From the
>      perlre manpage:
> 
> 
>         Alternatives are tried from left to right, so the first
>         alternative found for which the entire expression matches, is
>         the one that is chosen. This means that alternatives are not
>         necessarily greedy. For example: when matching foo|foot
>         against "barefoot", only the "foo" part will match, as that is
>         the first alternative tried, and it successfully matches the
>         target string. 
> 
> 
>

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