On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Brett Glass wrote:
Now truncate stripped and poisoned filespecs at space to allow for comments
in the poisoned- and stripped-filenames lists - if you are poisoning or
stripping filespecs containing spaces, MAKE SURE you use \s instead of a
literal space!
Will "\ " work?
No, the parser isn't that sophisticated. It does "s/\s.*$//"
Also, which Perl metacharacters (e.g. \w) work?
., * and ? don't work - they have been remapped from RE semantics to
file glob semantics because of the context they're being used in:
. -> \. (a literal period)
* -> .* (zero or more of anything)
? -> . (any character)
Apart from that, everything else *should* work because it's not being
altered; however I haven't tried much that's very complicated apart
from the (?...) examples that are in the recommended poison list.
Oh, and do backreferences work?
I haven't tried them. Can you give me a useful example of a
backreference in a filespec?
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1024: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79
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