Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: 669 CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] [Bug 669] pcrecpp:: QuoteMeta does not behave as
expected when there are embedded null bytes
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Craig Silverstein wrote:
> It's not been a goal of QuoteMeta to behave exactly like perl's
> QuoteMeta (Philip: should it be?), so I have no problem special-casing
> our handling of NUL. It's also a much simpler diff (which I include
> below).
>
> Philip, what do you think?
I agree with you. Perl handles NULs in strings happily, I seem to
recall, so this is pretty Perl-compatible. I'll put that patch on in due
course. (Nothing seems urgent at the moment, and I've got other stuff to
do. :-)
