From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:39:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cleanup git-send-email.perl:extract_valid_email
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:

>> > 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.