Re: string-match doesn't honor anchor when START is nonzero

[Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>]

Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com> writes:

> Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> writes:
> | > This illustrates the problem:
> | >
> | >   (setq rmail-dont-reply-to-names "f.")
> | >   (load "mail-utils")
> | >   (rmail-dont-reply-to "b, f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6")
> | >
> | >   Return value: "b, f2, f4, f6"
> | >
> |
> | Thanks for the test case.  Does the following patch solve the problem?
> 
> Thanks for the quick work, but that doesn't quite do it
> since it removes only the matching part of the ID.  Instead,
> it should remove the entire ID.
> 
> Consider this example:
>   (rmail-dont-reply-to "b, foo1, foo2, no-match")
> With your patch, it evaluates to this:
>   bo1o2, no-match

Ah, sorry, you're right.  How about this one, applied to the patched
version?



diff -c -r1.1 mail-utils.el
*** mail-utils.el       2000/01/27 12:48:26     1.1
--- mail-utils.el       2000/01/27 12:50:08
***************
*** 226,232 ****
                             ;; Include the human name that precedes <foo@bar>.
                             "\\([^\,.<\"]\\|\"[^\"]*\"\\)*"
                             "<\\(" rmail-dont-reply-to-names "\\)"
!                      "\\)"))
        (case-fold-search t)
        pos epos)
      (while (setq pos (string-match match userids pos))
--- 226,232 ----
                             ;; Include the human name that precedes <foo@bar>.
                             "\\([^\,.<\"]\\|\"[^\"]*\"\\)*"
                             "<\\(" rmail-dont-reply-to-names "\\)"
!                      "\\)[^,]*"))
        (case-fold-search t)
        pos epos)
      (while (setq pos (string-match match userids pos))