Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756356Ab1EWQgm (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 12:36:42 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1876 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755905Ab1EWQgk (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 12:36:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch v3] checkpatch: Signature format verification From: Joe Perches To: anish singh Cc: davej@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, apw@shadowen.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, vapier@gentoo.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, man.k1983@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: <1306006721.1622.18.camel@anish-desktop> <1306059528.2761.3.camel@anish-desktop> <1306164094.2292.25.camel@anish-desktop> <1306167105.8687.11.camel@Joe-Laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:36:38 -0700 Message-ID: <1306168598.8687.27.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 20 On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 22:03 +0530, anish singh wrote: > \s[a-zA-Z]* => this is a regular expression for name & space b/w > Last/First name > Ex: anish kumar > .* => It is used to grep whatever follows name...in our context > mail-id > Ex: abc@bbc.com. > So, $1 will contain ...'anish kumar ' Unless the email contains a quote or a period like: Signed-off-by: "J. Random Contributor" -- 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/