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Re: built-in regex matches wrong character

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On 09/06/2018 12:39 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> In article <mailman.444.1536243821.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org>,
> Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
>> But bash could be taught to convert any regex that contains a range with
>> both endpoints ASCII into a different bracket expression before handing
>> things over to regcomp().  That is, if the user is matching against
>> [a-d], bash hands [abcd] to regcomp() instead.  You don't need a flag in
>> regcomp() to get RRI, just merely some pre-processing (and often memory
>> allocation, as the expansion of a range into a non-range tends to
>> require more characters).
> 
> This is easy and inexpensive for ASCII only.  Full RRI does the
> same thing for wide character sets as well, though, and there
> the possibility for using very large amounts of memory makes the
> rewrite-the-range idea less palatable.

Indeed. But the bash option is named 'globasciiranges', and I find far 
more use in having ranges with both endpoints in single-byte ASCII 
behaving sanely than I do for ranges with one or more ends resulting in 
a multibyte character (by the time my regex involves multibyte 
characters, I am already admitting that I am in locale-dependent 
territory, and RRI may no longer be the best action anyway).  That is, 
RRI makes the most sense when dealing with ASCII characters (< 128) in 
the first place, and that's a reasonable stopgap for immediate 
implementation, even if we don't get full RRI across all of Unicode 
(assuming that such might later become available via a new regcomp() flag).

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Re: built-in regex matches wrong character Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2018-09-06 09:23 -0500
  Re: built-in regex matches wrong character arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2018-09-06 17:39 +0000
    Re: built-in regex matches wrong character Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2018-09-06 12:58 -0500

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