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bug#20957: 2.21 bug in handling at least one -P regular expression


From: vampyrebat
Subject: bug#20957: 2.21 bug in handling at least one -P regular expression
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 02:55:28 -0500

grep 2.21 incorrectly handles a -P regular expression that 2.20 handled 
correctly.  Thanks for looking into this.

$ cat file
Here's a line.

This line has one blank line above it.


This line has two blank lines above it.



This line has three blank lines above it.




This line has four blank lines above it.

$ grep-2.20/src/grep -Pzo '(?<=\n\n\n).*' file
This line has two blank lines above it.
This line has three blank lines above it.
This line has four blank lines above it.
$ grep-2.21/src/grep -Pzo '(?<=\n\n\n).*' file
This line has two blank lines above it.





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