Hi Karl, On Thursday, 2011-11-10 21:44:33 -0800, Karl Koehler wrote:
> investigating further I have come to the conclusion that the attached > ( and previously inlined ) patch is correct, in the sense that regular > expressions of the failing type are now handled correctly. > > e.g. > A[\[:\]] > > should find an 'A' followed by one of '[',':',']' and it does now (old > behavior: infinite loop). Great! You're one of the very few who ever dared to dive into that awful regex code ;-) > I don't seem to see any regression tests for reclass ? No, there aren't. Want to create some? ;-) > Also, and independent of this issue, certain regular expressions don't > work as expected, e.g. > A[\[:] > unexpectedly matches nothing, but > A[:\[] > and > A[\[\:] > do... ( as far as I know ':' should match itself unless one of the > special posix ranges is used. ) Yes, there are quite some shortcomings and bugs with that code. I wouldn't invest too much time though, plan is to replace that legacy code entirely with the more suitable ICU regex. > Review or comment would be greatly appreciated ! Works, and I didn't see a case where it breaks things. Pushed to master with http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=305878f44bfee90c8ddba1f40b30d18150d4adde Just one thing: please confirm that you contribute this and future patches under the LGPLv3+ and MPL 1.1 licenses. Thanks Eike -- LibreOffice Calc developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GnuPG key 0x293C05FD : 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD
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