Folks:
While doing a close eyeball lint of a misbehaving complex rule, I noticed
I had made a rather subtle typo:
mumble{x,y]mumble
Note the closing _square_ bracket. I guess I missed the [SHIFT] key... :)
This did not generate any lint or runtime errors.
Any idea why? I would expect the perl RE engine to have a problem with
unbalanced curly braces like that, but a quick test shows it does not (at
least, not in 5.8.8)! I would have thought you'd have to escape a curly
brace to match it literally, just like you do square brackets...
Does this deserve any special checking, like the || test? If so, I'll open
a bug. Or might it be a bug in perl's RE parser?
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John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/
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