Subject: Re: git send-email --notmuch expr

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:16:52 -0800 (PST)

Jed Brown <[email-masked]> writes:

> 	} elsif (/^(?:To|Cc|Bcc):/i) {
> 		print "To/Cc/Bcc fields are not interpreted yet, they have been ignored\n";
> 		next;
> 	}
> 
> This regex doesn't match these headers (is the leading ?: a typo?) so
> there is no warning.

(?: ... ) is in Perl non-capturing grouping

>>From perlre(1)

  "(?:pattern)"
  "(?imsx-imsx:pattern)"
       This is for clustering, not capturing; it groups subexpressions
       like "()", but doesn't make backreferences as "()" does.

So it is not a bug, and it definitely should match... unless implicit
variable $_ (the default input and pattern-searching space) got
mangled.  It would be better to use explicit form:

   $variable =~ /pattern/

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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