Re: PATCH: PCRE support for embedded NUL characters

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:51:45 +0100
Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com> wrote:
> Doing it just for UTF-8 is incompatible with the rest of the shell.  It
> should be possible to do it similarly to mb_metastrlen() in utils.c.
> Basically the only difference is using an explicit length rather than null
> termination, plus not having an internal test for Meta characters.

Indeed, it would be straightforward to add extra arguments to
mb_metastrlen() and mb_metacharlenconv(_r)() to indicate they were being
passed an unmetafied string of an explicit length.

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