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Re: Improvements to the regex pages
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at baldric dot uwo dot ca>
- To: David Flynn <dav at chess dot plus dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:41:08 -0400
- Subject: Re: Improvements to the regex pages
- References: <200405301646.15812.dav@chess.plus.com>
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 04:46:15PM +0100, David Flynn wrote:
>
> In 'Match Results with Subexpressions' it would be useful to say that rm_eo is
> the offset of the character after the end of the substring.
>
> So for example if the string "hello" was matched in "!!hello world!!" rm_so
> would be 2 and rm_eo would be 7.
>
> It would also be useful to state that any unused regmatch_t entries are filled
> with rm_so and rm_eo values of -1.
The best thing would be to make the change yourself and submit a patch.
Failing that add a wishlist item to the bug tracking database?
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/
c.