Re: Fully anchor mi_gdb_test expected results.

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:37:04PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > proc string_to_regexp {str} {
> >     set result $str
> >     regsub -all {[]*+.|()^$\[]} $str {\\&} result
> >     return $result
> > }
> 
> This doesn't seem to work for the " character. 
> 
> Here's the input to string_to_regexp,
>    555-break-insert -t "\"basics.c\":28"
> 
> Here's the output,
>    555-break-insert -t "\"basics\.c\":28"
> 
> Here is what I need to pass the test (which I hand wrote),
>    -break-insert -t \"\\\\\"basics.c\\\\\":28\"
> 
> It's a little odd. The quote needs to be escaped once, which makes
> perfect sense to me. The \ char needs to be escaped with 3 back slashes,
> to make a total of 4. This is a little odd to me. Is that what
> string_to_regexp does?
> 
> Any ideas?

Replace this:
     regsub -all {[]*+.|()^$\[]} $str {\\&} result
with this:
     regsub -all {[]*+.|()^$\[\\]} $str {\\&} result

i.e. add two backslashes before the closing break.  Then does it work?

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