Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Horst von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> > OK, but be careful as this (?:...) is an extended regexp (needs /x on
> >> > match).
> >
> >> Are you sure about /x?
> >
> > The manual (perlop(1)) says you need /x to match extended regexps, and
> > (?...) is the marker for such (perlre(1)).
> I always had the impression that eXtended in the context to talk
> about /x was about ignoring whitespaces and forcing people to
> write \s (or perhaps \040) when they mean a whitespace and had
> nothing to do with (?...) stuff. Let me look up the fine
> manual.
You might be right... and it even sounds sensible; but both (?...) stuff
and the ignoring of space is described as extended here.
Note that \s is a space character (' ', '\t', ...), which is not the same
as \040 (and that one assumes ASCII...).
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