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Re: [Nmh-workers] pick character classes
From: |
Josh Bressers |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] pick character classes |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:26:21 -0500 |
> i noticed this afternoon that pick doesn't honor ranges in
> character classes. it treats the class "[a-z]" as three
> characters ('a', 'z', and '-') instead of 26. so i implemented it.
>
> as i was coming to the end of the work, i suddenly had a nasty
> feeling of deja vu. now it might be because i've implemented
> ranges for similar regex code before, or it might be because this
> has been done or talked about on the list before.
>
> is there already a patch out there for character classes ranges
> in pick regexps? or is there a reason they shouldn't be implemented?
There's a patch here:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=4011
I've been meaning to add this fix, but I've been terribly busy lately. I
see no reason to not support this behavior.
--
JB