Re: PATCH: simplifying regular expressions

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Ben Elliston wrote:
> A lot of regular expressions in DejaGnu are complex for no good
> reason. This is because the regexps are placed inside quotes ("..")
> wich are processed before being passed to the relevant function (be it
> 'expect', 'regexp', 'regsub', etc). As long as the string is a
> constant, it is possible to put the regexp in braces and eliminate one
> additional level of backslash quoting.  Here are a few examples from
> lib/telnet.exp. As you can see, the regexps become quite a bit
> clearer, even for these fairly simple cases.
>
> Any objections if I go through and clean up a bunch of these?
>   

That is good for lib/telnet.exp, but some files, like lib/dejagnu.exp 
and testsuite/runtests.all/libs.exp substitute variables into the regexps.


-- Jacob