Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] diff.c: convert builtin funcname patterns to non-GNU extended regex syntax

Brandon Casey wrote:

Brandon Casey wrote:

quoted

+	{ "java", "!^[ 	]*(catch|do|for|if|instanceof|"
+			"new|return|switch|throw|while)\n"
+			"^[ 	]*(([ 	]*"
+			"[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*){2,}"

I don't understand the last two lines above.

ok, I figured it out.

I was interpretting the {2,} part in

  ([ 	]*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*){2,}

as requiring two characters, instead of two or more repetitions of
the pattern inside the parenthesis.

-brandon