GNU bug report logs - #17814
24.3.91; better string manipulation in subr-x

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Shigeru Fukaya <shigeru.fukaya <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:12:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3.91

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Shigeru Fukaya <shigeru.fukaya <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17814: 24.3.91; better string manipulation in subr-x
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:14:56 -0400

>   (string-match "\\`[\s\t\n\r]*\\(.*?\\)[\s\t\n\r]*\\'" string)
>   (if (or (< 0 (match-beginning 1)) (< (match-end 1) (match-end 0)))
>       (match-string 1 string)
>     string))

The above string-match will fail on a string that has a newline, and the
subsequent code will use whatever was the old match-data, resulting in
broken behavior.

Other than that, I don't have any opinion on such changes (I've never
heard anyone complain about code size or cpu-time of any of those
functions, so I think it largely doesn't matter either way).

        Stefan
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 253 days ago.

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