From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: =~ doesn't work with NUL characters
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:38:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170615083846.5be76e35@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170614204938.GA76510@tower.spodhuis.org>
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:49:38 -0400
Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@spodhuis.org> wrote:
> Thus: do we want to change behaviour, after 16 years, to allow embedded
> NUL for the PCRE case, being different from the ERE case?
I don't see why not --- the behaviour with NUL may be longstanding but
it's a bit cloudy what the actual intention is. Generally, accepting
NUL as a regular character anywhere we can get it to work and shrugging
our shoulders in cases where the system fails to support it seems
reasonable to me.
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-15 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-13 10:02 Stephane Chazelas
2017-06-14 20:49 ` Phil Pennock
2017-06-14 23:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-06-15 7:38 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2017-06-15 8:18 ` Stephane Chazelas
2017-06-15 9:50 ` Stephane Chazelas
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