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29.2.50; substring (and other PCM styles) fails with candidates containing newlines

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From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: "72425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <72425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Subject: bug#72425: 29.2.50; substring (and other PCM styles) fails with candidates containing newlines
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 15:32:00 -0400

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

>> This is due to a regex using "." when it should use a pattern which
>> actually matches anything, such as "[^z-a]".  A patch to fix will
>> follow.
>
> "[^z-a]" doesn't match any char.
>
> "\\(.\\|[\n]\\)" matches any char.

(rx anychar) expands to [^z-a], I'm just following that.  File a
different bug if you think rx is wrong, and if that gets changed, I'll
change this patch as well.

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