Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]

Alexander Viro
2001-11-04T20:06:53Z

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob ьstergaard wrote:

> So just ignore square brackets that have "=" " " and ">" between them ?
>
> What happens when someone decides "[----> ]" looks cooler ?

First of all, whoever had chosen that output did a fairly idiotic thing.
But as for your question - you _do_ know what regular expressions are,
don't you? And you do know how to do this particular regex without
any use of library functions, right?