Re: Bug in Expr 2.0.12 - .* too greedy

[Derek Robert Price]

Larry Jones wrote:

> Derek Robert Price writes:
>  
>
> > The expr, version 2.0.12, which happens to be distributed with RH Linux 
> > 8.0 is broken.  .* is way too greedy.  Here's a test case:
> >    
>
> FWIW, the oldest 2.0.x I can find is 2.0.13 and it seems to work
> correctly, so I'm guessing the bug didn't last long.  RH just picked
> an unfortunate version to distribute.
>  

Actually, I can duplicate the bug on my machine with the 4.5.3 that Jim 
Meyering suggested.  I think the bug is in glibc 2.2.93. 
address@hidden at RedHat tells me that expr uses the GNU regex 
library.  I'm looking into that now.  With any luck, someone at RedHat 
is looking into it too.  :)

Derek

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