From: hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] regexp doubt
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:46:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimHm0T2obR3mJLrOJEae_kDD9Cppan9SapsZ1na@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88f2fccf6f0ecb1a3924f8d37b52abf8@bellsouth.net>
maybe I'm using a buggy version of acme, because /stat[abc]?[- ;]/
also fails with a "malformed" error. And according to the regexp(7)
man page, you should be able to precede a '-' with a backslash.
2010/7/13 <blstuart@bellsouth.net>:
>> both of them yield a
>>
>> regexp: malformed `[]'
>>
>> error.
>> I forgot to mention and I had an alternative solution from the
>> beginning /stat[abc]?([ ;]|-)/
>> I'm just wondering the reason the original version failed.
>
> As I recall, if you're going to include a hyphen in a character
> class, it has to be the first character so that it isn't taken to
> indicate a range.
>
> BLS
>
>
>
--
Hugo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-13 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-13 14:56 hugo rivera
2010-07-13 15:01 ` Vinu Rajashekhar
2010-07-13 15:11 ` hugo rivera
2010-07-13 15:15 ` Rodolfo (kix)
2010-07-13 15:31 ` hugo rivera
2010-07-13 15:37 ` blstuart
2010-07-13 15:46 ` hugo rivera [this message]
2010-07-13 15:50 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-07-13 15:18 ` erik quanstrom
2010-07-13 15:31 ` hugo rivera
2010-07-13 16:00 ` erik quanstrom
2010-07-13 18:38 ` Russ Cox
2010-07-13 18:46 ` blstuart
2010-07-14 7:47 ` hugo rivera
2010-07-13 18:47 ` erik quanstrom
2010-07-13 18:49 ` erik quanstrom
2010-07-13 18:57 ` erik quanstrom
2010-07-14 18:11 ` Russ Cox
2010-07-15 8:15 ` hugo rivera
2010-07-13 15:48 ` yy
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