Re: Old submatches returned by match-string et al

Thanks for the report. Martin> There seems to be a case where stale values are returned Martin> by match-beginning, match-end and match-string. [...] Martin> I've verified this in XEmacs 21.4 (patch 6). Also in 21.4.9. Could someone check in 21.5? I don't have time to work on it further today, but the match functions expect the start position of the nth match to be < 0 if the pattern contains < n subexpressions. We don't seem to have any code to ensure that the start array is correctly initialized. Initialization could be done in search.c compile_pattern, but I don't know if this is the "right" place for it yet. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py