[bug #25231] grep fails with searches that have \" more than once

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                 Summary: grep fails with searches that have \" more than
once
                 Project: grep
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 02 Jan 2009 03:48:53 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

When doing the following:

echo '\"\"' > somefile
cat somefile
grep '\"\"' somefile

Grep fails to give the expected output of 1:\"\", and instead gives nothing
and returns with exit code 1. This seems to happen with any string with \"
more than once in it.




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