Curator "regular expression matching with timestrings"

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Curator docs say

What this means is that a simple timestring to match year and month, %Y.%m will result in a regular expression like this: ^.*\d{4}\.\d{2}.*$ . This pattern will match any 4 digits, followed by a period . , followed by 2 digits, occurring anywhere in the index name.

It seems to me that a pattern like ^foo$ shouldn't match foo anywhere in an index name. Hopefully regex anchors actually work (against the whole index name string)? I assume one of those two sentences is wrong.

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You’re missing that there are two .* immediately after the ^ and immediately before the $ anchors, meaning that the date string can occur anywhere inside the index name.

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My bad. Just wasn't looking very closely. Thanks!