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

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jun 6, 2006, 21:39 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlksanev9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200606062124.k56LOroI007738@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>

Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:

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>> > 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)).

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.

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