[1.11.x] Fixed #27945 -- Clarified that RegexValidator searches with the regex.

Backport of 325db2a8c3453a56db5e0df0eed37476eb67802d from master

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/django/core/validators.py b/django/core/validators.py
index 11a3d8e69f..ea18685fdb 100644
--- a/django/core/validators.py
+++ b/django/core/validators.py
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ class RegexValidator(object):
 
     def __call__(self, value):
         """
-        Validates that the input matches the regular expression
-        if inverse_match is False, otherwise raises ValidationError.
+        Validate that the input contains a match for the regular expression
+        if inverse_match is False, otherwise raise ValidationError.
         """
         if not (self.inverse_match is not bool(self.regex.search(
                 force_text(value)))):
diff --git a/docs/ref/validators.txt b/docs/ref/validators.txt
index 417df517a4..eeac982bdc 100644
--- a/docs/ref/validators.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/validators.txt
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ to, or in lieu of custom ``field.clean()`` methods.
 
     .. attribute:: regex
 
-        The regular expression pattern to search for the provided ``value``,
-        or a pre-compiled regular expression. By default, raises a
+        The regular expression pattern to search for within the provided
+        ``value``, or a pre-compiled regular expression. By default, raises a
         :exc:`~django.core.exceptions.ValidationError` with :attr:`message`
         and :attr:`code` if a match is not found. That standard behavior can
         be reversed by setting :attr:`inverse_match` to ``True``, in which case