tests: ensure regexes match to the end of the string
Regular expressions in the test suite are currently written assuming
that you need a trailing ".*" to avoid matching to the end.
Instead of matching regular expressions using "^pattern", this patch
makes matching more restrictive by matching "^pattern$".
--- a/tests/run-tests.py Wed Sep 22 16:05:59 2010 -0500
+++ b/tests/run-tests.py Wed Sep 22 16:05:59 2010 -0500
@@ -506,7 +506,8 @@
# hack to deal with graphlog, which looks like bogus regexes
if el.startswith('|'):
el = '\\' + el
- return re.match(el, l)
+ # ensure that the regex matches to the end of the string
+ return re.match(el + r'\Z', l)
except re.error:
# el is an invalid regex
return False