Hi,
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:53:46AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Thanks. They weren't typos; they show my past history as an IBM
> mainframe programmer. :-) IBM uses the word "alphameric" for
> "alphanumeric", or at least, they used to in the 1970s and 1980s.
> [Interestingly, the word has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary
> - the online version, anyway: "Contraction of ALPHA-NUMERIC" and gives a
> 1956 quotation to support it.]
wow, that's really interesting! Now I'm ashamed I spoiled the magic.
> (I just noticed I wrote "write" instead of "right" in
> a message I posted. Sigh.)
I almost did the same a day or two ago... Must be spots on sun!
And now for something completely different:
s/backslash/backspace/
:-)
Cheers,
Stepan Kasal
Index: pcre_compile.c
===================================================================
--- pcre_compile.c (revision 274)
+++ pcre_compile.c (working copy)
@@ -2787,7 +2787,7 @@
c = check_escape(&ptr, errorcodeptr, cd->bracount, options, TRUE);
if (*errorcodeptr != 0) goto FAILED;
- if (-c == ESC_b) c = '\b'; /* \b is backslash in a class */
+ if (-c == ESC_b) c = '\b'; /* \b is backspace in a class */
else if (-c == ESC_X) c = 'X'; /* \X is literal X in a class */
else if (-c == ESC_R) c = 'R'; /* \R is literal R in a class */
else if (-c == ESC_Q) /* Handle start of quoted string */
@@ -3076,7 +3076,7 @@
d = check_escape(&ptr, errorcodeptr, cd->bracount, options, TRUE);
if (*errorcodeptr != 0) goto FAILED;
- /* \b is backslash; \X is literal X; \R is literal R; any other
+ /* \b is backspace; \X is literal X; \R is literal R; any other
special means the '-' was literal */
if (d < 0)
