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From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Octets regexp
Date: Thu,  2 May 2013 21:04:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130502190415.GB412@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2292951.aK3zqF2TmN@blitz>

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:45:28PM +0200, dexen deVries wrote:
> please pardon the silly question, but... how about piping the binary data
> through xd(1) before sending it to regexp(3)?
>

Because it will work only for some cases, since newlines and formatting
come in the picture and it still imposes to have regexp rune compatible,
i.e. not every sequence is allowed it has to be an UTF-8 compatible one.

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        Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-02 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-02 12:38 tlaronde
2013-05-02 12:48 ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 13:25   ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 13:43     ` Tristan
2013-05-02 14:19       ` Tristan
2013-05-02 14:51       ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 15:02         ` Bence Fábián
2013-05-02 15:20           ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 15:27             ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 15:10         ` Kurt H Maier
2013-05-02 15:21           ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 13:44     ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 14:43       ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 14:58     ` a
2013-05-02 15:08       ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 15:19         ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 15:31           ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 16:53             ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 18:59               ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 18:45           ` dexen deVries
2013-05-02 19:04             ` tlaronde [this message]
2013-05-02 19:22               ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 19:39                 ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 20:13                   ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-02 20:17                   ` 9p-st
2013-05-03 11:16                     ` tlaronde
2013-05-03 13:15                       ` Tristan
2013-05-03 16:33                         ` tlaronde
2013-05-02 16:16 ` tlaronde

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