[RFC/TESTSUITE] completion.exp

Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
Wed Apr 9 20:14:00 GMT 2003


David Carlton writes:
 > On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:29:01 -0400, Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> said:
 > 
 > > +# If the directory name contains a '+' we must escape it, adding a backslash.
 > > +# If not, the test below will fail because it will interpret the '+' as a 
 > > +# regext operator.
 > > +regsub -all \\+  ${fullsrcdir} \\\+ dirstring
 > 
 > Would it be better to use string_to_regexp instead of regsub?  (But
 > leaving in the comment as an indication of why you're using it.)
 > 

Ah, I didn't know about string_to_regexp. Yes, definitely, thank you.
How's this?

elena



Index: completion.exp
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/uberbaum/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/completion.exp,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -p -r1.14 completion.exp
--- completion.exp	4 Jan 2003 22:37:49 -0000	1.14
+++ completion.exp	9 Apr 2003 20:11:44 -0000
@@ -669,7 +669,14 @@ cd ${srcdir}
 set fullsrcdir [pwd]
 cd ${mydir}
 
-gdb_test "cd ${fullsrcdir}" "Working directory ${fullsrcdir}.*" "cd to \${srcdir}"
+# If the directory name contains a '+' we must escape it, adding a backslash.
+# If not, the test below will fail because it will interpret the '+' as a 
+# regexp operator. We use string_to_regexp for this purpose.
+
+gdb_test "cd ${fullsrcdir}" \
+         "Working directory [string_to_regexp ${fullsrcdir}].*" \
+         "cd to \${srcdir}"
+
 send_gdb "file ./gdb.base/compl\t"
 sleep 1
 gdb_expect  {




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