bug#10649: 23.4; Regexp char classes not working

bug#10649: 23.4; Regexp char classes not working

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give
a recipe starting from `emacs -Q':

--- Beginning of description ---
- start emacs -Q
- evaluate this forms:
(string-match "[:xdigit:]" "0")
(string-match "[:xdigit:]" "a")
(string-match "[:alnum:]" "5")
They should return non-nil, but they return nil instead.

Found not working also on Emacs 23.3b and 24.0.92.1.

Cheers.

--- End of description ---

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In GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
  of 2012-01-30 on debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10707000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/home/lele/bin/emacs/emacs-23.4''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
   default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
   tooltip-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
e m a c s - v e r s i o n C-x C-e i <return> <return>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <tool-bar> <paste>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <delete> <delete> <delete>
<delete> <delete> <delete> i SPC <backspace> <backspace>
SPC <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x C-e h <backspace>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1>
<help-echo> <tool-bar> <copy> <return> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <tool-bar> <paste>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <delete> <delete> <delete>
<delete> <delete> <delete> a l p h a <right> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <delete> a <return> <backspace>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x C-e <up> <right> C-x C-e
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x C-e <left> <left> <left>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> n u m <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x C-e
<left> <left> <backspace> 5 <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>
C-x C-e <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report> C h a r SPC c l
a s s i <backspace> e s SPC n o t SPC w o r k n i g
C-g <return> c o d i n g - s y s t e m C-x C-e q C-h
f c o d i n g - s y <tab> <tab> c u <tab> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> C-g <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<emacs-known-problems> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> SPC
SPC SPC SPC SPC <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior>
<prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior>
<prior> <prior> <prior> C-. M-x s h o w l <backspace>
- l i <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> l i s t - l i <tab>
<return> ^ \ * <return> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-x 1 <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next> <next>
<next> <next> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<buffer> C-b <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug
-report>

Recent messages:
0 [2 times]
nil
Quit
Entering debugger...
Back to top level.
Making completion list...
Quit
View mode: type C-h for help, h for commands, q to quit.
call-interactively: Beginning of buffer [10 times]
Searched 1 buffer; 327 matches for `^\*'

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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bug#10649: 23.4; Regexp char classes not working

[Glenn Morris]

Raffaele Ricciardi wrote:

> - start emacs -Q
> - evaluate this forms:
> (string-match "[:xdigit:]" "0")
> (string-match "[:xdigit:]" "a")
> (string-match "[:alnum:]" "5")
> They should return non-nil, but they return nil instead.

From the elisp manual:

34.3.1.2 Character Classes

Here is a table of the classes you can use in a character alternative,
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

34.3.1.1 Special Characters in Regular Expressions
[...]
`[ ... ]'
     is a "character alternative", which begins with `[' and is
     terminated by `]'

Therefore you must write eg

  (string-match "[[:xdigit:]]" "0")

bug#10649: 23.4; Regexp char classes not working

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

Ouch!  I did RTFM, but the brackets confused me.  Thank you.
--

On 01/30/2012 08:06 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Raffaele Ricciardi wrote:
>
>> - start emacs -Q
>> - evaluate this forms:
>> (string-match "[:xdigit:]" "0")
>> (string-match "[:xdigit:]" "a")
>> (string-match "[:alnum:]" "5")
>> They should return non-nil, but they return nil instead.
>
>  From the elisp manual:
>
> 34.3.1.2 Character Classes
>
> Here is a table of the classes you can use in a character alternative,
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> 34.3.1.1 Special Characters in Regular Expressions
> [...]
> `[ ... ]'
>       is a "character alternative", which begins with `[' and is
>       terminated by `]'
>
> Therefore you must write eg
>
>    (string-match "[[:xdigit:]]" "0")