Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I stumbled upon this missing feature last week and would be interested > in finally implementing it. But I'm unsure about the best syntax for > that to not break backwards compatibility. > > My current idea would be to only support partial matches if explicetly > requested and only support one wildcard '*' at the beginning and/or the > end of the extra info. > > So > tag-name extra-info ===> /^\Qtag-name\E\s+\Qextra-info\E$/ > tag-name extra-info* ===> /^\Qtag-name\E\s+\Qextra-info\E.*$/ > tag-name *extra-info ===> /^\Qtag-name\E\s+.*?\Qextra-info\E$/ > tag-name *extra-info* ===> /^\Qtag-name\E\s+.*?\Qextra-info\E.*$/
Yeah, I'm not sure we need anything other than * as a wildcard. I would tend to start doing matching on the extra info if it's provided. I think right now we ignore the extra-info section of an override entirely, don't we? I looked at that once and then confused myself. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
