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Re: gnulib-tool.py: Simplify regular expressions.


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: gnulib-tool.py: Simplify regular expressions.
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:25:05 +0200

Hi Collin,

> I decided to try PyCharm again since I remember liking it when I used
> it ~1 year ago. It seems that it has pretty good warnings for regular
> expressions.

Both patches applied; thanks.

> Patch 0002 removes some redundant backslashing. I am pretty sure most
> of these were introduced by me. We don't need to backslash ']' when it
> is the first character in the '[...]' set. And in the set the special
> characters have their special meaning dropped, so there is no need to
> backslash them.

Oh, this means that r'[x\$]' contains dollar and backslash, whereas the
programmer might have thought that it contains only the dollar? Indeed,
it's worth to listen to these warnings!

Bruno






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