Re: Extended regex badness (Was: Re: [Nano-devel] homepage - "latest version 1.0.9")

[David Lawrence Ramsey]

--- Chris Allegretta <address@hidden> wrote:

<snip>

>In an attempt to (1) get back into this whole developer thing and (2) 
>carry out Sven's request, I noticed that the extended regex code seems 
>to have broken my all capital regex ("\<[A-Z_]\{2,\}\>").  Is this 
>because the extended regex syntax for this would be different?  

Apparently so; sorry I missed that.  Changing the "\{" and
"\}" to "{" and "}" in the c-file regex fixes it.

I just looked it up.  According to the regex(7) manpage, {
and } denote bounds in extended regexps, while in ordinary
regexps, \{ and \} denote bounds, and { and } are ordinary
characters.  So changing the \{ and \} in the c-file regex
to { and } will fix it.  Sorry I missed that; I apparently
tested all the regex-using functions except for color ...


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