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Re: [PATCH] testsuite: Remove the unneeded escaping of '[' and ']' characters in test_class_help


On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Martin Galvan <martin.galvan@tallertechnologies.com> writes:
>
>> +# Notice that the '[' and ']' characters don't need to be escaped for strings
>> +# wrapped in {} braces.
>
> This isn't true in general, it's because this is a tcl list.  The
> backslashes are removed when the list is passed through join in
> help_test_raw (which removes one level of quoting, but doesn't do
> command or variable expansion).  But that also means that the backslash
> before '.' is ineffective and should be replaced by a double backslash.
> Alternatively, each element could be enclosed with braces which disables
> any quoting inside it.
>
>>  proc test_class_help { command_class expected_initial_lines args } {
>>      set l_stock_body {
>> -        "List of commands\:.*\[\r\n\]+"
>> -        "Type \"help\" followed by command name for full documentation\.\[\r\n\]+"
>> -        "Type \"apropos word\" to search for commands related to \"word\"\.[\r\n\]+"
>> +        "List of commands\:.*[\r\n]+"
>
> The backslash before ':' is useless.

Thanks for the clarity.
We don't have to fix all issues in this patch, so the patch is fine with me.


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