BTW, the end-of-line handling is wrong; grep will fail to select a
line where the pattern appears at the end and the line is not
terminated by a newline. I'm working on a fix (and on implementing my
solution for -w and -x).
DES
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Jamie Howard writes:
> I am not the internationalization expert, but doesn't [^A-Za-z] and
> [A-Xa-z$] limit you to just English and other Roman languages? Won't
> [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] be languages independent, presuming regex supports
> it?
They don't DTRT. They only match whitespace boundaries
On 7 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Jamie Howard writes:
> > On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> > >There are two special cases- of bracket expressions: the
> > >bracket expressions `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' match the null
> > >string at the beginning and end
Jamie Howard writes:
> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> >There are two special cases- of bracket expressions: the
> >bracket expressions `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' match the null
> >string at the beginning and end of a word respectively.
> > Perhaps this will help w
BTW, the end-of-line handling is wrong; grep will fail to select a
line where the pattern appears at the end and the line is not
terminated by a newline. I'm working on a fix (and on implementing my
solution for -w and -x).
DES
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Jamie Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am not the internationalization expert, but doesn't [^A-Za-z] and
> [A-Xa-z$] limit you to just English and other Roman languages? Won't
> [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] be languages independent, presuming regex supports
> it?
They don't DTRT. They only match wh
On 7 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Jamie Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> > >There are two special cases- of bracket expressions: the
> > >bracket expressions `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' match the null
> > >string at t
Jamie Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> >There are two special cases- of bracket expressions: the
> >bracket expressions `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' match the null
> >string at the beginning and end of a word respectively.
> > Perh
Jamie Howard writes:
> > Perhaps this will help with -w?
>
> Yes, I received a patch from Simon Burge which implements this. It also
> beats using [^A-Za-z] and [A-Za-z$] as I was and GNU grep does. I am
> still having trouble with -x though. It turns out that even if I specify
> a commandline
Jamie Howard writes:
> > Perhaps this will help with -w?
>
> Yes, I received a patch from Simon Burge which implements this. It also
> beats using [^A-Za-z] and [A-Za-z$] as I was and GNU grep does. I am
> still having trouble with -x though. It turns out that even if I specify
> a commandlin
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Are you sure you're stripping out the newline and carriage return?
You know, that did it.
I'l put together another version tonight incorporating all the bug fixes
and suggestions I have received over the past few days. More on that
shortly.
Jamie
T
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Are you sure you're stripping out the newline and carriage return?
You know, that did it.
I'l put together another version tonight incorporating all the bug fixes
and suggestions I have received over the past few days. More on that
shortly.
Jamie
Jamie Howard writes:
> > Perhaps this will help with -w?
>
> Yes, I received a patch from Simon Burge which implements this. It also
> beats using [^A-Za-z] and [A-Za-z$] as I was and GNU grep does. I am
> still having trouble with -x though. It turns out that even if I specify
> a commandline
Jamie Howard writes:
> > Perhaps this will help with -w?
>
> Yes, I received a patch from Simon Burge which implements this. It also
> beats using [^A-Za-z] and [A-Za-z$] as I was and GNU grep does. I am
> still having trouble with -x though. It turns out that even if I specify
> a commandlin
Hello!
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 05:00:41PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> [...]
> Hm. Adding ^ and $ should work, provided you don't specify either
> REG_NOTBOL or REG_NOTEOL. (I assume that (foo) above, including the parens,
> is the RE. With the parens, it depends whether you're using standard
Hello!
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 05:00:41PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> [...]
> Hm. Adding ^ and $ should work, provided you don't specify either
> REG_NOTBOL or REG_NOTEOL. (I assume that (foo) above, including the parens,
> is the RE. With the parens, it depends whether you're using standar
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
>There are two special cases- of bracket expressions: the
>bracket expressions `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' match the null
>string at the beginning and end of a word respectively. A
>word is defined as a sequence of word charac
Jamie Howard writes:
> Now, I am having a problem though. I cannot figure out how to implement
> -w and -x. For -x, I tried modifying the regular expression (foo) into
> ^(foo)$ before compiling, but that did not work. I intended to do
> something similar with -w. Anyway, I am probably missing
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
>There are two special cases- of bracket expressions: the
>bracket expressions `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' match the null
>string at the beginning and end of a word respectively. A
>word is defined as a sequence of word chara
Jamie Howard writes:
> Now, I am having a problem though. I cannot figure out how to implement
> -w and -x. For -x, I tried modifying the regular expression (foo) into
> ^(foo)$ before compiling, but that did not work. I intended to do
> something similar with -w. Anyway, I am probably missing
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 02:13:13PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Jamie Howard writes:
> > All of the code is original except for binary.c. It is used with the -a
> > option to prevent searching binary files. binary.c is extricated from
> > less-332's binary checking code. I was just that
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 02:13:13PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Jamie Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > All of the code is original except for binary.c. It is used with the -a
> > option to prevent searching binary files. binary.c is extricated from
> > less-332's binary checking cod
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 02:09:47PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> This should be trivial to translate to C. The only non-trivial part of
> implementing this stuff is that you have to trick getopt() to make
> - work. You'll have to put a : at the start of your getopt()
> string and examine e
Jamie Howard writes:
> All of the code is original except for binary.c. It is used with the -a
> option to prevent searching binary files. binary.c is extricated from
> less-332's binary checking code. I was just that lazy.
Less's binary checking code is a tad too strict. It complains about
fi
Jamie Howard writes:
> I made the version in FreeBSD 4.0 my target except for -A num, -B num, -C,
> -num, and -Z. These are not required by the Single Unix Specification or
> POSIX and I felt they would bloat my code too significantly.
I find those quite useful, and I don't see how they'd bloa
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 02:09:47PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> This should be trivial to translate to C. The only non-trivial part of
> implementing this stuff is that you have to trick getopt() to make
> - work. You'll have to put a : at the start of your getopt()
> string and examine
Jamie Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> All of the code is original except for binary.c. It is used with the -a
> option to prevent searching binary files. binary.c is extricated from
> less-332's binary checking code. I was just that lazy.
Less's binary checking code is a tad too strict. I
Jamie Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I made the version in FreeBSD 4.0 my target except for -A num, -B num, -C,
> -num, and -Z. These are not required by the Single Unix Specification or
> POSIX and I felt they would bloat my code too significantly.
I find those quite useful, and I don't
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jamie Howard wrote:
: I also do not use mmap(), I treat the file as a simple stream
: instead. My code is also a bit slower on larger files, but a bit faster
: on smaller files. Sometimes I am an order of magnitude slower. I am
: never that much faster. I think not using m
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jamie Howard wrote:
: I also do not use mmap(), I treat the file as a simple stream
: instead. My code is also a bit slower on larger files, but a bit faster
: on smaller files. Sometimes I am an order of magnitude slower. I am
: never that much faster. I think not using mm
I have used FreeBSD for a couple years now. It is the only OS on my
desktop. I have learnt many things from its source. I felt it was time
to give something back. A few minutes later I decided to offer it to all
BSDs. I also will offer it to the DaemonLinux group, Apple, the Darwin
group, an
I have used FreeBSD for a couple years now. It is the only OS on my
desktop. I have learnt many things from its source. I felt it was time
to give something back. A few minutes later I decided to offer it to all
BSDs. I also will offer it to the DaemonLinux group, Apple, the Darwin
group, and
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