On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 11:44:17AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2023-07-19 at 11:27 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > [] > > > > > > > Given perl's tendency to have corner cases in its corner cases, I > > am guessing that the "^" character combined with the "/" character is > > causing trouble here. Especially given that I don't see any use of such > > a pattern anywhere in checkpatch.pl except directly in a "~" expression, > > and there are a lot of those. > > > > So I will keep it as is unless I hear otherwise from Joe Perches. > > I played with it a bit and can't think of anything better. > > Code is always something that can be improved later so the > way Paul has it now is fine with me. Then I don't feel so bad not finding anything better myself. Thank you, and if nothing else this exercise refreshed a few of my perl neurons. ;-) Thanx, Paul
