From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:02:22 GMT
Subject: Re: "Nested quantifiers" error in gitweb with "++" in the filename
Message-ID: <CANgJU+VA9s9t0c8D0P_DesbSDQRBQ6v913KixKQAuiy8jZsdzQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <jd04eq$9m0$1@dough.gmane.org>

On 22 December 2011 21:37, Jehan Bing <jehan@orb.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting an error when trying to look at a blob when the filename has
> "++" in it:
>
> http://.../blob/13ec1624fefc23d20d0407aac3337b35844a2ceb:/foo-++.txt

This error comes because the filename is being used a pattern without
being protected by a quotemeta.

Interestingly, a later version of perl would not have this problem as
++ is a legal quantifier as of 5.10, nevertheless it probably wouldnt
do what you expected.

yves
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