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From: npostavs@gmail.com
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: mattiase@acm.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 36167@debbugs.gnu.org,
	hi-angel@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#36167: [PATCH] Replace manually crafted hex regexes with [[:xdigit:]]
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:50:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85zhmo9fk6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zhmo834p.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:04:38 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > [0-9A-Fa-f] still has one advantage: the reader, and the
>> > writer, know exactly which characters are included without looking it up.
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> > - whether non-ascii digits are accepted

>  ‘[:digit:]’
>       This matches ‘0’ through ‘9’.  Thus, ‘[-+[:digit:]]’ matches any
>       digit, as well as ‘+’ and ‘-’.

> Is anything missing here?  Where did the question about non-ASCII
> digits come from, given this text?

It came from (a hypothetical) user who doesn't remember (or hasn't read)
the documentation.  The advantage of [0-9A-Fa-f] vs [[:xdigit:]] here is
similar to explicit comparison against (point-min) vs (bobp) that you
pointed out in #35967.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-11 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-11 11:59 bug#36167: [PATCH] Replace manually crafted hex regexes with [[:xdigit:]] Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-06-11 12:03 ` bug#36167: Acknowledgement ([PATCH] Replace manually crafted hex regexes with [[:xdigit:]]) Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-06-11 12:29 ` bug#36167: [PATCH] Replace [0-9a-fA-F] with [[:xdigit:]] Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-06-11 13:03   ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-11 13:17     ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-06-11 13:30       ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-12  0:29         ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-06-12  2:42           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-12  8:21           ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-12 11:19             ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-06-12 14:55               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-12 16:39                 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-06-12 16:51                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-12 17:09                     ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-06-12 21:33                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-12 21:39                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-12 22:17                         ` Andreas Schwab
2019-06-12 22:22                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-12 22:48                             ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-06-11 13:32     ` npostavs
2019-06-11 14:36       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 14:26 ` bug#36167: [PATCH] Replace manually crafted hex regexes " Paul Eggert
2019-06-11 14:37   ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-06-11 15:37     ` Paul Eggert
2019-06-11 16:31       ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-06-11 16:50         ` Drew Adams
2019-06-11 17:04           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 17:18             ` Paul Eggert
2019-06-11 17:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 17:19             ` Drew Adams
2019-06-11 17:34               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 17:50             ` npostavs [this message]
2019-06-11 17:53               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 18:14                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 19:56 ` Andy Moreton
2019-06-12  2:30   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-12 11:44 ` Andy Moreton
2019-06-12 16:07   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-13  0:18 ` bug#36167: [PATCH v2] Replace manually crafted hex regexes wth [[:xdigit:]] Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-07-06  8:04   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-08  9:34 ` bug#36167: [PATCH v2] Replace manually crafted hex regexes with [[:xdigit:]] Konstantin Kharlamov
2019-07-08 12:11   ` Eli Zaretskii
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     [not found] ` <<1560263874.21373.1@yandex.ru>
     [not found]   ` <<5f7ea771-2a22-ba10-b3ce-6adb5e85dc9d@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]     ` <<85476B58-4CBD-45C9-903C-5E49D8E5D019@acm.org>
     [not found]       ` <<be6e97d4-5040-47b5-b27b-6a52d2f46072@default>
     [not found]         ` <<83zhmo834p.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <<85zhmo9fk6.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <<83v9xc80uv.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]               ` <<83tvcw7zvq.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-06-11 19:01                 ` bug#36167: [PATCH] " Drew Adams

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