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grep RE repetition match curiosity


From: Chris Beecroft
Subject: grep RE repetition match curiosity
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:47:58 -0700

The repetition match bug seems to provide strange results when zero is
used as the number of repetitions.

Given the file:
ab
azb
azzb

the regular expression pattern "az{0}b" acts as "az{0,1}b", i.e.,
returns the first two lines

likewise "az{0,0}b" acts like "az{0,1}b" and returns the first two lines
where only the first line should be expected.





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