Hello! On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 05:00:41PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote: > [...]
> Hm. Adding ^ and $ should work, provided you don't specify either > REG_NOTBOL or REG_NOTEOL. (I assume that (foo) above, including the parens, > is the RE. With the parens, it depends whether you're using standard REs or > extended REs. :) But be careful about adding ^ and $ to something like (extended syntax) foo|bar. ^foo|bar$ is wrong, and ^(foo|bar)$ works HERE but not always, as when the original regex uses \number backreferences, you must patch them (increase by one), and you're hosed if \9 is already used. > [...] Regards, Hannah. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
