Paul Eggert wrote:
perhaps there's a PCRE version dependency here?
I found a PCRE-version-dependent problem that may be relevant, and
installed the attached further patch to fix it.
From dc7d532d16dec740d11b6817c9b558543aca0136 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014
El 10/09/14 a las 00:08, Paul Eggert escribió:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> >perhaps there's a PCRE version dependency here?
>
> I found a PCRE-version-dependent problem that may be relevant, and installed
> the attached further patch to fix it.
Thanks! I'm including this fix in the current debian pack
Thanks. I have confirmed that new version has expected response as
following.
$ env LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 src/grep -P '.?b' in
ab
Hello!
I know - egrep v 2.14 is not a last version, but i have no time to
verify in new version :)
Regexp [A\-Z] not work as 'A' or '-' or 'Z'
That finded all letters:
Example:
nezhevenko@nezhevenko:~> echo 'd' | grep -E '[A\-Z]'
d
nezhevenko@nezhevenko:~> egrep -V
egrep (GNU grep) 2.14
...
On 09/10/2014 08:23 AM, nezhevenko wrote:
echo 'd' | grep -E '[A\-Z]'
d
grep is working correctly here, I'm afraid. Backslash is not special
there, so '[A\-Z]' matches 'A' and all characters in the range from '\'
through 'Z'. The size of the range depends on the locale; in some
locales th
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks. How about the attached simpler patch instead? Since grep always
> uses glibc-compatible regex (and supplies its own substitute when the system
> lacks one), and since all known glibc-compatible implementations fail, it
> should be safe
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks, that patch looks fine.
>
> By the way, it's simpler for me (and I assume others) if patches like these
> are simply applied to the master. Grep development is so lackadaisical that
> the hassle of dealing with patches floating around bu
Jim Meyering wrote:
what about configure's --without-included-regex option?
With it, the test may well pass (counted as a failure, here) on
systems without glibc.
Grep uses the glibc interface for regular expressions, and I expect that
every current implementation of that interface has the bug
