Hi Nuno, On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 20:20 +0100, Nuno Lopes wrote: > >> now i get the issue. It grabbs more than one line! This means > >> run-tests.php has to be fixed. The whole thing is designed under > >> the assumption that %s catches no new lines and hence only one > >> line. > > > > That would be the best answer but I think it's a difficult fix and > > whatever it was might break other tests. I think it would mean replacing > > %s with something other than .+?. I'll have a look tomorrow and see if I > > can find a regex that would do - one of the things that had me confused > > for a while was that I thought the ? (non-greedy qualifier) should > > guarentee the minimum match but it doesn't work quite like that. > > > OK, so basically it is impossible to fix the current regex to match what we > want (I had a quick chat with the PCRE author and he thinks the same). > I propose the following patch: > http://web.ist.utl.pt/nuno.lopes/php_run_tests_%s.txt
Should be http://web.ist.utl.pt/nuno.lopes/php_run_tests_%25s.txt I guess ;-) > The main changes are: > '%s' => '[^\r\n]+' > '%a' => '.+' > > This means that some tests have to be fixed, but the majority passes. Most > important is that with this patch I found some tests that had the expected > output wrong. > > So unless someone rejects this patch, I'll commit it (and update the > http://qa.php.net/write-test.php page too). > Anyway, I don't think that a function name should be replaced by %s. The > expected output should be as stricter as possible. from a short review of the patch I think it's fine and a good idea. So please go on and commit. johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
