Re: [PATCH v2] cmd-list.perl: fix identifying man sections

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MÅMartin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>

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Sep 23, 2022, 11:42 UTC

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On Fri, 23 Sept 2022 at 10:53, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the quick turn-around, this looks good to me in this form.

Thanks for reviewing.

> Now, having written and looked at this with fresh eyes this would be an
> even better & more logical thing to do:

>                 open I, '<', "$name.txt" or die "No such file $name.txt";
>                 while (<I>) {
>         -               if (/^(?:git|scalar)[a-z0-9-]*\(([0-9])\)$/) {
>         +               if (/^\Q$name\E\(([0-9])\)$/) {
>                                 $mansection = $1;
>                                 next;
>                         }

Right, we know what we want there, so this does look reasonable.

> Anyway, this is more than good enough for now, thanks! There's also much
> bigger issues with the script, and we can leave that all aside from now
> (e.g. if it dies the Makefile doesn't report an error, ouch!).

Martin