[Haskell-cafe] Text.Regex.matchRegex: Success is empty?

[Jeffrey Brown]

Esteemed Haskellers,

It is working for me, but I am puzzled by the matchRegex function:

    > import Text.Regex
    > :i matchRegex
    matchRegex :: Regex -> String -> Maybe [String]
            -- Defined in ‘Text.Regex’

Searches that fail return Nothing:

    > matchRegex (mkRegex "z") "abracadabra"
    Nothing

which makes sense. But why do searches that succeed return an empty list of
Strings?

    > matchRegex (mkRegex "a") "abracadabra"
    Just []
    >

-- 
Jeffrey Benjamin Brown
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