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by theamk 144 days ago
In general no, you should not use match from the string. If you are getting input from user, you want a more complex processing (like stripping all whitespace), and if you are getting input from API calls, you want to either use specified name as-is, or fail.

Yes, fullmatch() will help, and so will \Z. It's just that it is so easy to forget...