Hi all,
I'm trying to escape a string using lib.escape.
My goals is to turn a string into a regex for grep that matches just
that string, so I need to escape regex special characters like . and
*.
All seems to works fine, but once the input string contains a
derivation path, it stops working.
If
Excerpts from Mathijs Kwik's message of Tue Oct 09 12:09:33 +0200 2012:
> I found the scary-sounding function "unsafeDiscardStringContext",
> which seems to work around this problem.
> Can someone please shed some light on what's going on (or nix
> string/context handling in general) and if it that
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
> Excerpts from Mathijs Kwik's message of Tue Oct 09 12:09:33 +0200 2012:
>> I found the scary-sounding function "unsafeDiscardStringContext",
>> which seems to work around this problem.
>> Can someone please shed some light on what's going on (or
Hi,
On 09/10/12 06:09, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> I'm trying to escape a string using lib.escape.
> My goals is to turn a string into a regex for grep that matches just
> that string, so I need to escape regex special characters like . and
> *.
I just want to caution that doing this kind of string ma
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Eelco Dolstra
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09/10/12 06:09, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to escape a string using lib.escape.
>> My goals is to turn a string into a regex for grep that matches just
>> that string, so I need to escape regex special characters like . and
