[pcre-dev] [Bug 2222] New: pcre2grep does not support search…

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https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2222

            Bug ID: 2222
           Summary: pcre2grep does not support searching for \0 via -f,
                    even though pcre2 itself supports this
           Product: PCRE
           Version: 10.30 (PCRE2)
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: bug
          Priority: medium
         Component: Code
          Assignee: ph10@???
          Reporter: avarab@???
                CC: pcre-dev@???


I've implemented support for git grep -f <pat> where <pat> is a regex
containing \0 (not yet in git upstream).

So I was surprised to see that pcre2grep itself doesn't support this, in fact
it has a bug where it just cuts the pattern off at \0:

    $ perl -wE 'say "foo\0bar"' >file; perl -wE 'say "f.*\0[x].*a"' >p;
./pcre2grep -a -f p file; echo $?
    foobar
    0


GNU grep does the right thing:


    $ perl -wE 'say "foo\0bar"' >file; perl -wE 'say "f.*\0[b].*a"' >p; grep -o
-
a -f p file; echo $?
    fooba
    0
    $ perl -wE 'say "foo\0bar"' >file; perl -wE 'say "f.*\0[f].*a"' >p; grep -a
-f p file; echo $?
    1


Looking at the source the reason is obvious, read_pattern_file() calls strlen()
on the line, and add_pattern() itself takes a char*.

I don't actually need this myself, just thought you'd like to know. Seems like
a nice thing to add since not many grep engines do this correctly, and it would
be relatively easy to add since pcre2_match() supports it, just not the part of
pcre2grep which passes strings around.

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