On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:49:15PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Justin,
> 
> > > > Any suggestions about other pages whose SEE ALSO should mention this
> > > > page?
> > > Not really ... I'll have to think about it.
> > I'm including patches to add a SEE ALSO, and also to fix and tweak the
> > page based on some new\-found understanding ..
> > 
> > If you tell me where to get your most recent copy, then I'll provide a
> > patch against that.
> > 
> > Justin
> > 

> > +only the first character of \fIresponse\fP is considered significant.
> > +Responses matching \fBm/^[Yy]/i\fP are always accepted as affirmative
> > +(in any locale), and those matching
> > +\fBm/^[Nn]/i\fP are always accepted as negative.
> 
> This is more detail than I think is really required to explain 
> the point.  You already say that just the first character is 
> significant.  The additional RE isn't needed.
But this happens for any locale; it is a behaviour to document, not an
implementation.

> .SH BUGS
> The \fBrpmatch\fP() implementation looks at only the first character
> of \fIresponse\fP.  As a consequence, "nyes" returns 0, and
> "ynever; not in a million years" returns 1.
> It would be preferable to accept input strings much more
> strictly, for example (using the extended regular
> expression notation described in \fBregex\fP(7)):
> \fB([yY]|yes|YES)\fP and \fB([nN]|no|NO)\fP.
Why not anchor with "^" and "$"?

Justin


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