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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Octets regexp
Date: Thu,  2 May 2013 15:22:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a14b1c442389a52b89aad17acbb615e@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130502190415.GB412@polynum.com>

> 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.

can you give an example of xd outputting something that's not a rune?

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-02 19:22 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
2013-05-02 19:22               ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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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