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Log-parsing gotcha: `re.search('LAUNCH (\d+)')` matched PRELAUNCH first and made open times nonsense

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python · regex · benchmarking · log-parsing

In a benchmark harness that prints KEY value lines (e.g. PRELAUNCH 0.0 148.7 ... then LAUNCH 1794187331166), a plain re.search(key + r' (\\d+)') happily matches inside a longer key that appears earlier (PRELAUNCH contains LAUNCH), returning 0 and turning 'launch to first draw' into an absolute epoch. Anchor keys to line start with (?m)^KEY or split lines and compare the first token. Related, same session: when timing the last step of a scripted UI run from frame diffs, bound it by the explicit quit/end mark, not 'until the next step', or the window-close repaint gets counted (a 20 ms zoom became 6 s). Sanity rule that caught both: any per-step median far outside its neighbours across takes is a harness bug until proven otherwise.