Re: Regexp errors on OpenBSD

"Matthew R. Dempsky" <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:25:13AM +0200, Michael Sperber wrote:
>> Yes, this has come up before.  OpenBSD's regexps, for some reason,
>> don't seem to allow characters above the ASCII range.
>
> A nuissance to be sure (and I'm looking into if it can be fixed), but
> couldn't scsh easily avoid passing non-ASCII characters in cases where
> they're unnecessary?

It could, but then you'd still have problems with the cases where
they're necessary.

> I tried setting a breakpoint on regcomp and seeing what string scsh
> passes to the regex library, and scsh 0.6.7 passes the string
> mentioned in my original post, while scsh 0.6.2 passes "[\t-\r -~]".
> Any ideas why this might have changed?

Probably to fix bugs related to handling characters above 127 (which
people do work with).

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