From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Numeric range bug
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 14:25:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9907281225.AA34297@ibmth.df.unipi.it> (raw)
Just discovered this. It will have to wait to be fixed --- it's been
around for years and no-one's complained. I'm planning a rewrite of the
pattern matching code anyway.
--- Etc/BUGS~ Fri Jul 9 09:30:19 1999
+++ Etc/BUGS Wed Jul 28 14:22:29 1999
@@ -44,3 +44,7 @@
such patterns unchanged if they do not match regardless of the state of
the nonomatch and nullglob options.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Numeric ranges are still too greedy with using characters; for example,
+<1-1000>33 will not match 633 because the 633 matches the range. Some
+backtracking will be necessary.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it> Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy
next reply other threads:[~1999-07-28 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-28 12:25 Peter Stephenson [this message]
1999-07-30 9:27 ` Pattern matching Andrej Borsenkow
1999-07-30 9:29 ` Peter Stephenson
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