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author | Tim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-27 15:27:15 +0000 |
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committer | Tim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-27 15:27:15 +0000 |
commit | 0dcb7b75a3b81c1d1fc24e94203a9238bdd7c586 (patch) | |
tree | f4b08af10de886c16baa33ec4e9c59f4acf95b01 /usr.bin/cut | |
parent | f91650cf2d479aa4fc540569f18f4b58318d0248 (diff) | |
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Update a comment that compared the parser with an obsolete draft of
IEEE Std 1003.2-1992. Most of the "extensions" here were actually
required by the final version of the standard.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=131196
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/cut/cut.c b/usr.bin/cut/cut.c index eeeb17e57116..9d7cb50675b7 100644 --- a/usr.bin/cut/cut.c +++ b/usr.bin/cut/cut.c @@ -161,10 +161,8 @@ get_list(char *list) /* * set a byte in the positions array to indicate if a field or * column is to be selected; use +1, it's 1-based, not 0-based. - * This parser is less restrictive than the Draft 9 POSIX spec. - * POSIX doesn't allow lists that aren't in increasing order or - * overlapping lists. We also handle "-3-5" although there's no - * real reason too. + * Numbers and number ranges may be overlapping, repeated, and in + * any order. We handle "-3-5" although there's no real reason too. */ for (; (p = strsep(&list, ", \t")) != NULL;) { setautostart = start = stop = 0; |