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Date:      Mon, 5 Sep 2005 05:48:20 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Rein Kadastik <wigry@uninet.ee>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sed not working
Message-ID:  <20050904194820.GC77285@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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On Sun, 2005-Sep-04 20:17:28 +0300, Rein Kadastik wrote:
>Andrea Campi wrote:
>>Actually, the best way forward would probably be to mail Ruslan directly.

Agreed.

>LANG=C would be nice but the character classes should be implemented as 
>well. I would like to be the one who concentrates on that subject but 
>then I need some more information, how to actually do the job because as 
>I understand, these things are quite heavily managed in FreeBSD project.

"find /usr/src -type f | xargs egrep 'a-z|A-Z|0-9'" returns just under
3600 hits on -current.  Based on a quick scan, most of these are
regexps that should be replaced by character classes but someone will
need to manually work through them all.

I agree with Andrea that you should mail Ruslan directly to discuss
the best way forward.  A single PR with a patch for all about 3000
problematic regexps probably couldn't be committed but we don't
want 3000 PR's about one problem either.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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