Mailing List Archive: # in regexp

# in regexp

Aug 22, 1995, 10:25 AM

Post #1 of 3 (1587 views)

I think you already have this one, since I have seen some bug reports
name as "comment and regexp...", but I did not have the time to check
more, so well, sorry for the disturbance if it was one:

---- version:
> /usr/local/bin/perl -v

This is perl, version 5.001

Copyright 1987-1994, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.

---- my script bla:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

$_="bla";

/(#bla)/x && print "coucou !\n"; ######## HERE ##########

---- bug:
fregate-~/public_html/test-zone>bla
/(#bla)/: unmatched () in regexp at bla line 5.

---- working variantes:
/(bla)/x ...
/(#bla)/ ...
/(\#bla)/x ...
it works also with an old version (5.000)
people had also the same problem with patchlevel 1m

that's all folks

Good luck !

Thanks for all !

Isil

Re: # in regexp [ In reply to ]

tye at metronet

Aug 22, 1995, 1:17 PM

Post #2 of 3 (1559 views)

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Excerpts from the mail message of Nicolas Thiery:
) I think you already have this one, since I have seen some bug reports
) name as "comment and regexp...", but I did not have the time to check
) more, so well, sorry for the disturbance if it was one:

This is intentional.

From regcomp.c:
else if (*regparse == '#') {
while (*regparse && *regparse != '\n')
regparse++;
regparse++;
continue;

Originally only "(?#comment)" was used for comments in //x. That
was deemed ugly so "#comment\n" is also allowed now:

% perl -de 0
DB<1> $x='hello'
DB<2> p $x =~ /(el)#ignore this comment/x
el
DB<3> q

) ---- working variantes:
) /(\#bla)/x ...

And you already know one of the ways to match # in //x.

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Re: # in regexp [ In reply to ]

merlyn at teleport

Aug 22, 1995, 2:03 PM

Post #3 of 3 (1567 views)

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>>>>> "Tye" == Tye McQueen <tye@metronet.com> writes:

Tye> This is intentional.

Tye> Originally only "(?#comment)" was used for comments in //x. That
Tye> was deemed ugly so "#comment\n" is also allowed now:

Wow. I must say, I missed this. Was this added while I was in court? :-)

Time to make another change to the slides... :-)

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