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pdfgrep: undocumented regex redefinition of “^” and “$”. Ooof! Reported 9 yrs ago and ppl still getting stung. (gitlab.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org to c/bugs@sopuli.xyz

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The linked bug report shows that astonishing but deliberate regular expression treatment was reported 9 years ago. Still today I spent time trying to work out why my regular expression was not matching only to find that the dev hi-jacked the meaning of ^ and $ for another purpose. Man page still neglects to warn users.

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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it does add some confusion. It should be documented, or maybe the use of ^ and $ should be explicitly refused except by special flag, or something.