Re: [PATCH] Use expr where possible

[Peter O'Gorman]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> "Peter O'Gorman" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > % expr "Xpowerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0" : 'X[^--]*-[^--]*-\(.*\)'
>
>
> How about the following instead?  I'd rather use a simpler regexp if
> it works.  Can you please verify that this works on the broken
> implementation?  Thanks.
>
> $ expr 'Xpowerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0' : '.*-\(.*\)'
> darwin8.1.0
> $ expr 'Xpowerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0' : '.*-\(.*\)-.*'
> apple
> $ expr 'Xpowerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0' : 'X\(.*\)-.*-'
> powerpc

Yes, this works also. Thank you.

Peter
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