We do not need a separate check forbidding whitespace after the opening parenthesis after a keyword - we forbid it after all of them. The only allowed whitespace after an opening parenthesis is a newline, tune the regex to reflect that. --- build-aux/check-spacing.pl | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/build-aux/check-spacing.pl b/build-aux/check-spacing.pl index 962eabb..044cd25 100755 --- a/build-aux/check-spacing.pl +++ b/build-aux/check-spacing.pl @@ -101,10 +101,8 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) { } } - # Require whitespace immediately after keywords, - # but none after the opening bracket - if ($data =~ /\b(if|for|while|switch|return)\(/ || - $data =~ /\b(if|for|while|switch|return)\s+\(\s/) { + # Require whitespace immediately after keywords + if ($data =~ /\b(if|for|while|switch|return)\(/) { print "No whitespace after keyword:\n"; print "$file:$.: $line"; $ret = 1; @@ -121,7 +119,7 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) { # but allow whitespace before ) on a single line # (optionally followed by a semicolon) if (($data =~ /\s\)/ && not $data =~ /^\s+\);?\s*$/) || - $data =~ /\(\s+\S/) { + $data =~ /\((?!$)\s/) { print "Whitespace after '(' or before ')':\n"; print "$file:$.: $line"; $ret = 1; -- 2.7.3 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list