Brian Gernhardt <brian <at> gernhardtsoftware.com> writes: > > Some would be right. I tend to find that the BSD (and BSD-like) libraries on OS X are more strict and have less > features than the GNU equivalents. (The fact that OS X's libreadline is actually the only mostly > compatible libedit drives me batty sometimes.) > > This does leave us with the question of what to do with the test. Perhaps a pattern like "a*+b" to match > "aa+b"? Plain + should always match just + in a BRE, even if \+ is special, and the * makes sure that it is a > regex instead of plain string matching. > > ~~ Brian > > You're right about \+ in BRE. I guess I missed that because glibc's implementation isn't strict BRE. I'll post a patch that fixes this problem. Thanks for catching this up! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html