From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 21:39:52 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20130502193952.GA662@polynum.com> References: <20130502123825.GA1975@polynum.com> <20130502150829.GA435@polynum.com> <2292951.aK3zqF2TmN@blitz> <20130502190415.GB412@polynum.com> <4a14b1c442389a52b89aad17acbb615e@ladd.quanstro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4a14b1c442389a52b89aad17acbb615e@ladd.quanstro.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Octets regexp Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5151b36e-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 03:22:21PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > can you give an example of xd outputting something that's not a rune? > Indeed, if the regexp is an ASCII representation matching xd outputs there is not _this_ problem. But this is limited regexp, since one can not use "character" ranges (it depends on the size); not '.'; because the conversion has to be done; because there is still the newline problem (that is added; not something in the original data) (if functions have been added to not deal with the newline, it is because the newline is a problem, and because regexp have a more wider use than "text"). -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C