From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: POSIX REGEX
Date: 24 Oct 2002 16:21:34 GMT
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Daniel Staudigel <dstaudi AT san DOT rr DOT com> wrote:

>       regcomp(&regex,"uhoh\([[:alnum:]]\)",0);
Those two: -----------------^------------^

almost certainly won't do what you want.  \ is an active character in
C source code.  To get a literal '\' into your regex pattern string,
you have to write:

	regcomp(&regex,"uhoh\\([[:alnum:]]\\)",0);

You also neglected to check the return status of both your regex
function calls --- they might have told you what the problem was, if
you had.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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