Deepayan, Thanks. One bug fix had tickled another here. grexexpr() is not much used in R and when I wrote a regression suite for grep and friends I was suprised to find that both grepexpr(perl=TRUE) and grexepr(fixed=TRUE) were giving incorrect results in MBCSs (provided multibyte characters were actually involved).
Fixed in r41676. Brian On Tue, 22 May 2007, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > completion is semi-broken in today's r-devel, and the reason seems to > be some regular expression changes: > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.6.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-05-22 r41673) > i686-pc-linux-gnu > > locale: > [...] > > attached base packages: > [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" > [7] "base" >> regexpr("o", "foo", fixed = TRUE) > [1] 2 > attr(,"match.length") > [1] 1 >> gregexpr("o", "foo", fixed = FALSE) > [[1]] > [1] 2 3 > attr(,"match.length") > [1] 1 1 > >> gregexpr("o", "foo", fixed = TRUE) > > *** caught segfault *** > address 0xc022fdab, cause 'memory not mapped' > > Traceback: > 1: gregexpr("o", "foo", fixed = TRUE) > > Possible actions: > 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled) > 2: normal R exit > 3: exit R without saving workspace > 4: exit R saving workspace > > On a different machine, this freezes R for a long time, consuming CPU > cycles and a lot of memory, before returning an error: > >> gregexpr("o", "foobar", fixed = TRUE) > Error in gregexpr("o", "foobar", fixed = TRUE) : > negative length vectors are not allowed >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.6.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-05-22 r41675) > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > -Deepayan > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel