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On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
>> I support the Rule of Least Surprise,
>
> The Rule of Least Surpise says if you type in "R12|C4" you should only
> get those two parts, not R123 and LC45 too.

I would agree if it was not regex but plain string matching or some 
custom syntax.