GNU bug report logs - #22064
expr: expr string : '.*' returns the number of matched bytes not characters

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 21:11:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #12 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 22064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22064: expr: expr string : '.*' returns the number of matched
 bytes not characters
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:32:59 -0600

tags 22064 fixed
close 22064
stop


(triaging old bugs)

On 30/11/15 02:09 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 
> that's another multibyte issue, it may be known already but I
> can't see it being referenced on debbugs.gnu.org.
> 

This commit added multibyte support to expr(1):
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=a9f2be5bfec2bfe86c0851787312996467a653ee

Available since coreutils 8.28 (released Sep 2017).

Closing as "fixed".

-assaf
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 213 days ago.

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