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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:50:19 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Odd package search behaviour: \+\+\.la
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On Aug 31 17:23, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> From: Achim Gratz=20
> > Adam Dinwoodie writes:
> > > However, if I search for `libstdc\+\+\.la`, despite this being just t=
he
> > > full name of the file that is being matched above, I get no results[1=
]!
> >=20
> > You'll notice that if you simply search for libstdc++.la you'll get the
> > result you seem to want, so there is some auto-escaping going on that
> > doesn't appear to be described anywhere.
>=20
> So, which regex syntax does the web page want: regular, extended (-E),
> or Perl (-P)? The web page should specify which or, better yet, allow us
> to specify which.

It's a grep BRE.  The backslashes are unneeded and even in the way
of what you're trying to grep.  I clarified this a bit on the
package search page.


Corinna

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