Hi, On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Jeff King wrote: > 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. Actually, that's funny. Yesterday, I repeated my claim that pcre is slow on IRC, and Sam Villain on IRC accused me of trolling. But as you can see from my postings on this list ($gmane/41682), you can see that _I_ had numbers to back up my claim. So no, I think pcre is just not worth it. > 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. :) That confirmation is at least some consolation to me :-) Ciao, Dscho "who is not here to teach, but to learn" - 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
