Re: [PATCH]: Transform rules prototype

On 2005-11-06 14:34:46 -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 20:15 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > release#*/=branches/gcc-$1-branch/
>
> Really ugly, IMHO.

Perhaps the way to write rules should be configurable. :)

> > The special characters are the following ones:
> > 1. At the beginning of the rule, ^ means that the match must occur
> > at the beginning of the string.
> > 2. * matches anything up to the separator (following *), if there is
> > one. For instance, in the 3rd rule above, * would be equivalent
> > to [^/]* in a regexp.
> > 3. In the replacement text, $[1-9] is replaced by the corresponding
> > matched text. $. is replaced by the URL given by svn info.
> >
> 2 is non-easy without a regex library, we need to discover what it
> captures.

2 would just be a simple loop until some given character is
encountered (or the end of the string). No need for any library
for that.

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