Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Wed, 5 May 1999 13:40:28 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > Finally we'll need some pretty significant changes to htsearch's use of
> > punctuation to get this to work properly. Remember that valid_punctuation
> > by default includes a few regex control characters. :-(
>
> Yes, this is something to consider. It also occurred to me that using
> parentheses to introduce a regex in htsearch may conflict with boolean
> expressions. Maybe in this context, something like /regex/ would make
> more sense? Just a thought.
This was why I suggested []. It seems like we'll need to use some sort of
delimiter for regex that will be stripped off before processing. IMHO, the
delimiter itself doesn't matter much, though there are clearly characters
to avoid.
-Geoff
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