Re: regex

Gary Houston (ghouston@actrix.gen.nz)
24 May 1997 19:36:17 -0000

| From: Aleksandar Bakic <bakicale@cps.msu.edu>
| Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 13:53:54 -0400 (EDT)
|
| Hi,
|
| I am using guile-970413 and I just found that the regex library
| doesn't work as expected (it suffices to try the short example from
| the Guile User Manual). Has that been fixed in the meantime?
|
| Thanks,
| Aleks

This one do you mean?

guile> (regexec r "abc")
#((0 . 4))
guile> (regexec r "abcd")
#((0 . 4))

Now you mention it, there does seem to be something odd there.

I don't think it's been fixed: the regex library doesn't yet compile
with the new guile-core (aka guile 1.1).