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bug#51235: resolve old FIXME in PCRE implementation to allow more than 1


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#51235: resolve old FIXME in PCRE implementation to allow more than 1 expression
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:50:04 -0700
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On 10/16/21 12:00 AM, Carlo Arenas wrote:
With this patch, multiple expressions (from -e or -f) are now
acceptable with -P for easier side by side comparison with the other
supported engines.

Surely this mishandles shell commands like this one:

grep -P '[
a]'

which should be an error, but with that patch would not be an error.





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