Merge pull request #23 from melloc/cntrl-class
Fix regular expressions containing [[:cntrl:]]
diff --git a/b.c b/b.c
index 89a7841..a54a234 100644
--- a/b.c
+++ b/b.c
@@ -823,7 +823,15 @@
if (cc->cc_name != NULL && prestr[1 + cc->cc_namelen] == ':' &&
prestr[2 + cc->cc_namelen] == ']') {
prestr += cc->cc_namelen + 3;
- for (i = 0; i < NCHARS; i++) {
+ /*
+ * BUG: We begin at 1, instead of 0, since we
+ * would otherwise prematurely terminate the
+ * string for classes like [[:cntrl:]]. This
+ * means that we can't match the NUL character,
+ * not without first adapting the entire
+ * program to track each string's length.
+ */
+ for (i = 1; i < NCHARS; i++) {
if (!adjbuf((char **) &buf, &bufsz, bp-buf+1, 100, (char **) &bp, "relex2"))
FATAL("out of space for reg expr %.10s...", lastre);
if (cc->cc_func(i)) {
