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From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gitk: Turn short SHA1 names into links too
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:15:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DCD27E.6060704@kitware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <237967ef0809260121w1c7cc516tceb3be2cbebb85bc@mail.gmail.com>

Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 2008/9/26 Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>:
>> It's a shame that tcl/tk regular expressions don't appear to support
>> anchoring matches against word boundaries (ie. "\b").
> 
> \y appears to achieve this;
> 
> % regexp {abc\y} 'abc'
> 1
> % regexp {abc\y} 'abcd'
> 0
> % regexp {\yabc\y} 'uabc,d'
> 0
> % regexp {\yabc\y} 'u+abc,d'
> 1
> 
> I have tcl/tk 8.5 so I cannot promise that isn't a new addition, I didn't
> look it up anywhere, but it's \y in some other implementations too, so I
> tried it.

It goes back at least as far as tcl/tk 8.2:

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.2.3/TclCmd/re_syntax.htm#M54

-Brad

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-26 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-26  0:11 gitk: Turn short SHA1 names into links too Linus Torvalds
2008-09-26  0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-26  6:32   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-09-26  7:26     ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-09-26  7:29       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-09-26  8:21     ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-09-26 12:15       ` Brad King [this message]
2008-09-26 10:41     ` Marco Costalba
2008-09-27  3:18     ` Paul Mackerras
2008-09-27  3:16 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-20 23:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-21 19:09   ` Junio C Hamano

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