On 9/6/18 10:23 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> But bash could be taught to convert any regex that contains a range with
> both endpoints ASCII into a different bracket expression before handing
> things over to regcomp(). That is, if the user is matching against [a-d],
> bash hands [abcd] to regcomp() instead. You don't need a flag in regcomp()
> to get RRI, just merely some pre-processing (and often memory allocation,
> as the expansion of a range into a non-range tends to require more
> characters).
Someone would have to write that code.
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