Re: circumflex/caret

Thomas Michael Hagen wrote:
> i just ran into a weird problem.
>
> a regex that i wrote on a 32-bit machine suddenly stopped working when 
> i ran it on a 64-bit machine.
>
> the regex: /^[[:lower:]][[:lower:]]\n/
>
> it is used in a syscall to ls
>
> with the caret removed, the regex behaves identically (wrongly) on 
> both machines (it matches the last two letters of all the subfolders 
> in the folder)
>
> with the caret, it works perfectly on the 32-bit machine (it matches 
> all the subfolders with two-letter names in the folder.
>
> on the 64-bit machine, however, it doesn't match anything.
>
> is this a known problem?
There's a big rewrite for 64-bit compatibility going on right now. Ger 
Hebbut's fork may work better for you right now.

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