Improvements to the regex pages

Carlos O'Donell carlos@baldric.uwo.ca
Fri Jun 4 14:41:00 GMT 2004


On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 04:46:15PM +0100, David Flynn wrote:
> 
> In 'Match Results with Subexpressions' it would be useful to say that rm_eo is 
> the offset of the character after the end of the substring.
> 
> So for example if the string "hello" was matched in "!!hello world!!" rm_so 
> would be 2 and rm_eo would be 7.
> 
> It would also be useful to state that any unused regmatch_t entries are filled 
> with rm_so and rm_eo values of -1.

The best thing would be to make the change yourself and submit a patch.
Failing that add a wishlist item to the bug tracking database?

http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/

c.
 



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