R-alpha: R-beta: regex
Thomas Lumley
thomas@biostat.washington.edu
Fri, 23 May 1997 12:17:28 -0700 (PDT)
On 22 May 1997, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> > > grep("([A-Za-z][^:]*):\\1","Ac:Ac",value=T)
> > character(0)
> I strongly suspect that no number of \s will make it work as long as
> do_grep() in main/character.c contains this line:
>
> eflags = REG_NOSUB;
Is this a feature? If so, can it at least be made optional?
Thomas Lumley
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