Aren't the \b in the UUID regex superfluous?

[guillaumealgis]

I'm not convinced the \b in the UUID regex serve any purpose. Why are we trying to match word boundaries here?

^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}\b-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\b-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\b-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\b-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$

(I tested the regex without the \b and the same strings match or don't match)

@alex-hofmann do you remember why you added those?

[alex-hofmann]

@guillaumealgis apologies for seeing this [not quite] a year since you asked. There's no reason for them, that I can remember, and with fresh eyes I would not include them.

It looks like the \b's are still out there, so one of us can likely PR an edit

[guillaumealgis]

@alex-hofmann no worries ☺️

I won't bother with a PR, the repo hasn't seen activity since sept 2021 :)