Hello, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:54:20PM CET: > On Monday 28 February 2011, Peter Rosin wrote: > > How about this? > > > > Should the sed command to strip comments be "s/ *#.*//", > > > IMHO yes, but I have no strong feelings here -- I'm ok also with the > "weaker" 's/ #.*//'.
It would be nice your sed script would allow sed scripts like s/#// s/ #// to continue to work. But if they don't, for now, that's not a big problem either: failures will be noisy. > > or does that fall into this bucket: > > > > Unicos 9 sed loops endlessly on patterns like ‘.*\n.*’. > > > I dont see why; there's not `\n' nor repated `.*' in the regex ` *#.*'. I wouldn't bother with Unicos. No use outside a museum. > Your new implementation keeps the test `self-check-unindent.test' > satisfied, so feel free to push it (either with or without the > amendment to the 's/ #*.//' expression). Thanks, Ralf
