5
pdfgrep: undocumented regex redefinition of “^” and “$”. Ooof! Reported 9 yrs ago and ppl still getting stung. (gitlab.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/bugs@sopuli.xyz
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

(Apologies for publicly posting a link into Cloudflare’s walled-garden, but archive.org comes up empty.)

The linked bug report shows that astonishing but deliberate regular expression treatment was reported 9 years ago. Still today I spent time trying to work out why my regular expression was not matching only to find that the dev hi-jacked the meaning of ^ and $ for another purpose. Man page still neglects to warn users.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it does add some confusion. It should be documented, or maybe the use of ^ and $ should be explicitly refused except by special flag, or something.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent