Hi Michael,
looks like the manpage needs an adjustment, or at least a note when
the GNU libc is used.
Regards,
Joey
Vincent Fourmond wrote:
> Package: manpages
> Version: 2.01-1
> Severity: minor
> File: regex.7.gz
>
>
> Hello !
>
> The regex.7.gz mentions that [[:>:]] and [[:<:]] are available to designate
> word boundaries.
> However, neither grep nor sed, which are build on the standard libc regcomp
> do recognise this syntax.
> Moreover, the small program here
>
> #include <regex.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <iostream>
>
> using namespace std;
>
> int main()
> {
> regex_t RE;
> int err_code = regcomp(&RE, "[[:<:]]",
> REG_EXTENDED);
> char Buffer[100];
> if(err_code) {
> regerror(err_code, &RE, Buffer, 100);
> cerr << "Error : " << Buffer << endl;
> }
> }
>
>
> produces the following error message:
>
> Error : Invalid character class name
>
> My guess is that this feature is not implemented anymore, or has never been.
> Then, two solutions:
> either remove it from the documentation, or at least mention that it's not
> supported anymore - either
> put the feature back into libc ;-) !
>
> Thanks for considering this report
>
> Vincent Fourmond
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