Re: new module 'regex-quote'

[Reuben Thomas]

On 18 September 2010 23:05, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> > it's a function which transforms a string to a string.
>> > I'm sure this function has been implemented many times already. The one I
>> > wrote is called 'regexp-quote' [1][2].
>>
>> Great, can we have it in gnulib? Does it work for all syntaxes?
>
> It needs a flag to distinguish the syntax, since BRE and ERE have different
> syntaxes. Here's a suggested module:

Great, thanks, though at 3 new functions and about 50 lines of code it
does illustrate why I prefer RE_PLAIN.

Nonetheless, if you put this in gnulib I'd probably use it rather than
RE_PLAIN, just because it's there.

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