Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 15:06:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 15:06:33 -0500 Received: from leibniz.math.psu.edu ([146.186.130.2]:16616 "EHLO math.psu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 15:06:29 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 15:06:27 -0500 (EST) From: Alexander Viro To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jakob_=D8stergaard?= cc: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] In-Reply-To: <20011104205248.Q14001@unthought.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob ?stergaard wrote: > So just ignore square brackets that have "=" " " and ">" between them ? > > What happens when someone decides "[----> ]" looks cooler ? First of all, whoever had chosen that output did a fairly idiotic thing. But as for your question - you _do_ know what regular expressions are, don't you? And you do know how to do this particular regex without any use of library functions, right? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/