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Re: Regex
- From: ÐÐÐÑÑ ÐÐÑÐÐ <pashev dot igor at gmail dot com>
- To: vijay nag <vijunag at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "libc-help at sourceware dot org" <libc-help at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 16:27:11 +0400
- Subject: Re: Regex
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2014/1/9 vijay nag <vijunag@gmail.com>:
> Ok. And the real question here is, why "*" cannot be used to match any
> string in extended regular expression whereas it works fine in basic
> regular expressions ?
Could you provide a minimal test program?
It looks like a bug.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/regcomp.html :
REG_BADRPT
'?', '*', or '+' not preceded by valid regular expression.