On 2020-09-28 15:48, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> There are a few cases: if I want to find declarations of type int,
>> I'd start with:
>>
>> $ grep -rn "int\s"
>>
>> or something like that. "int\~" would break the ability to do that.
>
> That would, among more obscure cases, miss the style of function
> declaration used by people who get along without ctags:
>
> static int
> my_little_function(int foo, char bar)
>
> So I would tend to use grep 'int\>' to match a word boundary instead of
> a whitespace character.
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>
On 2020-09-28 16:31, David Laight wrote:
From: Alejandro Colomar
Sent: 28 September 2020 14:33
...
There are a few cases: if I want to find declarations of type int,
I'd start with:
$ grep -rn "int\s"
or something like that. "int\~" would break the ability to do that.
The 'word markers' \< and \> are your friends; look for "\<int\>".
David
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Thank you both, I didn't know about those.
Regards,
Alex
