bug#35077: grep bug?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Todd,

On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 20:47:14 -0500
Todd Hoatson <address@hidden> wrote:

> I tried GNU grep 2.0d, using this: *\n[^#(/]*class*
> 
> This is intended to ensure that the word class is not preceded on the line
> with #, ( or /.
> 

grep 2.0 is ancient - from 1996 - see https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/ - you
should upgrade. Otherwise, I think you need ^ / caret for start of line -
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16944357/carets-in-regular-expressions .

> This gave me 15 matches like:
> 
> *UpdateStatusForm.cs:62: /// A public method to get a singleton instance of
> this class and display it.*
> 
> *UserViewSettingManager.cs:70: #region UserViewSettings class*
> 
> *VListControl.cs:462: message = uiFontRegex.Replace(message, "$1");*
> 
> 
> Why do I still get lines with (, # and / ?  Is this a bug or am I doing
> something wrong?
> 
> thanks,
> Todd Hoatson



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