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

[Martin Galvan <martin dot galvan at tallertechnologies dot com>]

Is it ok to commit as it is, or should I change the comment to reflect
what Andreas said?

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> 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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