From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Issue with ${var#(*_)(#cN,M)}
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:11:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151027111108.1ccf3775@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151027110353.GA8170@chaz.gmail.com>
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:03:53 +0000
Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-10-27 10:46:33 +0000, Peter Stephenson:
> [...]
> > % egrep '^(*_){2}$' <<<'1_2_'
> >
> > fails to match completely, i.e the backtracking is too complicated
> > to handle, whereas
> [...]
>
> Except that it should be .* in REs and that REs are greedy.
You're right, I got the pattern wrong, and it does work.
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-27 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-19 9:33 Stephane Chazelas
2015-10-19 19:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-20 19:09 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-10-20 23:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-27 10:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-10-27 10:46 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-10-27 11:03 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-10-27 11:11 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2015-10-27 11:11 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-10-27 11:37 ` Peter Stephenson
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