Re: Fully anchor mi_gdb_test expected results.

[Bob Rossi <bob at brasko dot net>]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:57:47PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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?

Ouch, yes it does.

Thanks very much,
Bob Rossi