Re: editfiles not working!?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 05:18:28PM +0200, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> 
> There is no "way that regexes are supposed to work". There
> are as many models for using regexes as there are programs
> to use.

There's a POSIX standard for regexes.  Implementations differ on how
much of the featureset they implement but common to all of them is that
.* is implied both before and after the pattern unless over-ridden by a
^ or $ character.  cfengine is the first application I've ever
encountered that does that differently and I think it's a basic enough
difference that maybe some other name for the patterns (as implemented
by cfengine) would be less confusing.

Confusing me more is the fact that according to
http://www.iu.hio.no/cfengine/confdir/regex.html, ^[^#] does match any
line not beginning with #.  Whoever wrote that page was expecting
standard POSIX behaviour.

-- 
Bruce

You can fool some of the people all the time, you can fool all of
the people some of the time but you can never fool your mother.

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