Re: [PATCH] Cleanup git-send-email.perl:extract_valid_email

From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Jun 6, 2006, 22:48 UTC
Message-ID: <200606062248.k56MmGr6008515@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <junkio@cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:
> >> > OK, but be careful as this (?:...) is an extended regexp (needs /x on
> >> > match).
> >
> >> Are you sure about /x?
> >
> > The manual (perlop(1)) says you need /x to match extended regexps, and
> > (?...) is the marker for such (perlre(1)).

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> I always had the impression that eXtended in the context to talk
> about /x was about ignoring whitespaces and forcing people to
> write \s (or perhaps \040) when they mean a whitespace and had
> nothing to do with (?...) stuff.  Let me look up the fine
> manual.

You might be right... and it even sounds sensible; but both (?...) stuff and the ignoring of space is described as extended here.

Note that \s is a space character (' ', '\t', ...), which is not the same as \040 (and that one assumes ASCII...).

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