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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu,  2 May 2013 15:22:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Octets regexp
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> 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