From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: 24020@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24020: [PATCHv2] Fix ‘[[:word:]]*\u2620’ failing to match ‘foo\u2620’ (bug#24020)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:36:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xa1tk2ggebag.fsf@mina86.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmfur683bl.fsf@hawking.suse.de>
> Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> writes:
>> For example, take regular expression ‘[[:alpha:]]*1’ trying to match
>> a string ‘foo’. Since the Kleene star is greedy, the engine will test
>> the shortest match for ‘[[:alpha:]]*’ which is ‘foo’. At this point
On Tue, Jul 19 2016, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Did you mean "the longest match"?
Yep, thanks for spotting this.
--
Best regards
ミハウ “𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓪86” ナザレヴイツ
«If at first you don’t succeed, give up skydiving»
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-20 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-18 14:04 bug#24020: [PATCH] Fix ‘[[:word:]]*\u2620’ failing to match ‘foo\u2620’ Michal Nazarewicz
2016-07-18 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-18 18:07 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2016-07-18 23:30 ` bug#24020: [PATCHv2] Fix ‘[[:word:]]*\u2620’ failing to match ‘foo\u2620’ (bug#24020) Michal Nazarewicz
2016-07-19 8:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-07-20 12:36 ` Michal Nazarewicz [this message]
2016-07-25 21:54 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2016-07-27 16:22 ` bug#24020: [PATCH] Fix ‘is multibyte’ test regex.c’s mutually_exclusive_p (bug#24020) Michal Nazarewicz
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