Re: Windows regexp problem

[Richard Crozier]

On 02/03/16 11:01, Richard Crozier wrote:
> I have a user on windows using the 4.0.0 release who is getting an error
> like this:
>
> error: regexp: PCRE does not support \L, \l, \N{name}, \U, or \u at
> position 4 of expression
>
> The offending regexp is something like:
>
> ^C:\Users\ <SNIP> \tb-xfemm_v1_6\mfemm\\.\.\cfemm\libfemm\liblua\lapi\.o$
>
> I've redacted some to protect their privacy, but could provide it off
> list if needed. The missing bit is just the rest of the file path.
>
> The error occurs in a file mmake.m (which is an mfile implementation of
> a subset of gnu make functionality). If interested you can find it here:
>
> https://github.com/mbauman/mmake
>
> I get no such error on Linux, so I'm wondering if this is a bug, or
> known limitation of the underlying regex library on windows, googling
> leads me to this:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3538293/php-regular-expression-pcre-does-not-support-l-l-n-p
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard

Actually, after just rereading my own message, this is clearly an issue 
with my own code, sorry for the noise.

Richard

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