[depressed]

Searching with regexes is more likely to be useful when trolling through log or data files than code.

Even then, the most common cases for me are searching for a string only at the beginning or ending of a line, or only searching for instances that are not part of a larger word.

[joevandyk]

I search for /def.*partial_name/ frequently when I can’t quite remember what a method is called in Ruby.