[fpc-pascal] Last fix for RegExpr (error on empty input)
Michael Van Canneyt
michael at freepascal.org
Sat Feb 15 15:25:35 CET 2020
On Sat, 15 Feb 2020, AlexeyT via fpc-pascal wrote:
> 1) typo in new Id: iMput.
Indeed, I looked right over that. I fixed that.
>
> 2) wrong fix for 2nd "Error" call in Substitute(): you disabled Error
> call but didn't disable Exit, you need to skip Exit there too, so
> Substitute will return non empty result when user replaces regex "\b" to
> e.g. "__".
I read your comment, but I am not sure that this is desirable behaviour.
For example sed also does not consider the empty string a word boundary:
home:~> echo '' | sed s/\\b/x/g
home:~> echo 'a' | sed s/\\b/x/g
xax
For empty string, it does not change anything. I think this is correct,
because there is no word, so there also cannot be a word boundary.
So I preferred not to change this behaviour.
Michael.
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