bug-coreutils
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

bug#5970: regex won't do lazy matching


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: bug#5970: regex won't do lazy matching
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:18:49 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.96 (gnu/linux)

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Because of expr?  Its use of regexp is tightly specified by POSIX,
> so we cannot change it without a very good reason.

In the OP's use of regexp POSIX defines nothing.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, address@hidden
GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."






reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]