On Fri, 23 Sept 2022 at 10:53, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the quick turn-around, this looks good to me in this form.
Thanks for reviewing.
> Now, having written and looked at this with fresh eyes this would be an
> even better & more logical thing to do:
> open I, '<', "$name.txt" or die "No such file $name.txt";
> while (<I>) {
> - if (/^(?:git|scalar)[a-z0-9-]*\(([0-9])\)$/) {
> + if (/^\Q$name\E\(([0-9])\)$/) {
> $mansection = $1;
> next;
> }
Right, we know what we want there, so this does look reasonable.
> Anyway, this is more than good enough for now, thanks! There's also much
> bigger issues with the script, and we can leave that all aside from now
> (e.g. if it dies the Makefile doesn't report an error, ouch!).
Martin
