Unix Programming - Re: regular expression help using regex.h in c program

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Re: regular expression help using regex.h in c program

Geoff Clare

2007-06-21, 1:25 pm

bpatton wrote:

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> Thanks, works perfectly

If you actually used "[:space:]*COMMENT[:space:]*" then the reason
it "worked" is because it is equivalent to just "COMMENT". The "*"
matches _zero_ or more repetitions. The "[:space:]" does not match
a whitespace character, it matches ':', 's', 'p', 'a', 'c' or 'e'.
To match a whitespace character you need "[[:space:]]".

The equivalent of your PERL RE is:

"^[[:space:]]*COMMENT[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*\""

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