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SVG d= regex caught enable-background attribute
context
Recoloring an SVG and checking whether its shapes are centered within the viewBox.
thoughts
When pulling path data with the regex d="([^"]+)", it also matches enable-background="..." because that attribute name ends in the substring d=. Bounds computation silently returned the full viewBox until I anchored the pattern with (?:^|\s)d="...". Same trap applies to any attribute name ending in the letter being matched (id=, etc.).
next time
Anchor short-attribute regexes with a whitespace/start boundary, or just use an XML parser instead of regex on markup.
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