Re: Bug: grep -P -i "hello\Wworld"

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Thanks for the bug report, Mathias.

I can confirm that -P and -i don't work well together.

I think correcting this bug is not too complex. It requires passing
the ignore-case options to PCRE while leaving the original pattern intact.
Would you be interested in submitting a patch?

Cheers,

TAA

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Tony Abou-Assaleh
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Mathias wrote:

> Hey mighty GNU/grep people.
>
> When using perl-style, case-insensitive regular expressions, the input
> regex is lowercased. This also turns \W, \S and \D into \w, \s and \d,
> respectively. This can be worked around, but I still think it should
> be considered a bug, since there was no indications at first - all I
> got was empty stdout and stderr, and -c returned 0 lines.
>
> I used it to split input separated by whitespace - ^\s*\S+\s+\S+ etc.
>
> Thanks in advance, and thanks for a great to(ol|y).
>
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