On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:54:59PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > :-) Since you seem comfortable with regular expressions, maybe you can > help me: I am looking for a pattern which matches _any_ character, and one > which matches only non-newlines, both with and without REG_NEWLINE. Hmm? Without REG_NEWLINE, any character is just '.', but I think you are stuck with '[^ ]' for non-newlines, since POSIX makes no provisions for quoting the newline (I just skimmed through POSIX chapter 9, and I didn't see anything useful). With REG_NEWLINE, non-newlines is of course '.'. Matching both is tricky without using extended regular expressions (where you could just do '.| '). In fact, I have been playing with it for a few minutes and I can't seem to find a good way, since you really want to represent '.' _inside_ a bracketed alternation sequence. But I don't think there's a character class for "everything". I think this would be much easier with pcre, but ISTR some opposition to that a few months back. So that's probably not very helpful to you, but at least you have confirmation from one other person that the answer isn't totally obvious. :) -Peff - 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
