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From: urban@cbnewsl.att.com (john.urban)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Bug in SCO UNIX DEV 3.2.2 on regcmp() nad regex() ?
Message-ID: <1991May6.175931.4940@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 6 May 91 17:59:31 GMT
References: <1169@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de>
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In article <1169@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de> basien@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de (Tillmann A. Basien) writes:
>
>Hy netlanders,
>	please help me.
>
>
>	Compiling a programm with the -xenix option I got problems
>	with the regex and regcmp functions .
>	This functions didn't work when compiled with the xenix option.
>	I use a SCO/UNIX Version 3.2.2 . 
>	I took the following program for testing the phenomena .

FYI -
	The test program works perfectly on UNIX System V/386 Release 4.0
Version 2.1.  you get the correct output of:  ret: h444 n: 4
when it's compiled on Standard C Development Environmnet (SCDE) C Issue 5.0

Sincerely,
John Urban

>
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>
>char *regcmp(char *,char *);
>char *regex(char *,char *,char *);
>
>main(argc,argv)
>int argc;
>char *argv[];
>{
>char ret[15];
>char *m,*n;
>
>        /* test if the name has an l or h at the beginning followed by a */
>	/* number 							 */ 
>	m = regcmp("\([lh][0-9]\{0,3\}\)$0",0);
>	n = regex(m,argv[1],ret);
>
>        /* show the the found part and the rest 			 */
>	printf("\n	ret: %s n: %s \n",ret,n);
>
>} /* end main */
>
>
>	I got these results :
>	=====================
>
>	1)
>	         cc -xenix -Zi -Od -o t_xenix t.c 
>
>	-rwxr-xr-x   1 owner group      29445 Apr 24 09:14 t_xenix
>
>	input/output: t_xenix h4444 -> ret:  n: (null)
>
>	2)
>	         cc -xout -Zi -Od -o t_xout t.c 
>
>	-rwxr-xr-x   1 owner  group      29461 Apr 24 09:18 t_xout
>
>	input/output: t_xout h4444 -> ret:  n: (null)
>
>	3)
>	         cc -x2.3 -Zi -Od -o t_x2.3 t.c 
>
>	-rwxr-xr-x   1 owner  group      29445 Apr 24 09:17 t_x2.3
>
>	input/output: t_x2.3 h4444 -> ret:  n: (null)
>
>
>        The result shout be:
>	====================
>	input/output: t_x2.3 h4444 -> ret: h444 n: 4
>
>	Does anybody know about the problem and know how to solve it ?
>	
>-- 
>					             basien@PEM-Stuttgart.de
>Dipl.-Ing. Tillmann A. Basien           PEM Programmentwicklungsgesellschaft
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