Re: NetBSD regex problem?? (ITS#1579)

[masarati@aero.polimi.it]

dax@gurulabs.com wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> 
> > Same result, I guess, but with the slight overhead
> > of calling regexec() instead of comparing 0 length
> > strings ;)
> 
> I just tested and discovered that:
> 
> dn.base="" doesn't give same behaviour as dn=()
> 
> It appears as if dn=() on NetBSD (and Linux) gives the same behavior as
> dn="" on Linux.

My mistake again: 
dn.base="" corresponds to dn.regex="^$";
dn.regex="()" seems to correspond to dn.regex=".*",
which, on Linux, corresponds to dn.regex="".

Pierangelo

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