Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 23 May 2011 09:39:20 -0700 | | From | Randy Dunlap <> | | Subject | Re: [patch v3] checkpatch: Signature format verification |
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On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:36:38 -0700 Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 22:03 +0530, anish singh wrote: > > \s[a-zA-Z]* => this is a regular expression for name & space b/w > > Last/First name > > Ex: anish kumar > > .* => It is used to grep whatever follows name...in our context > > mail-id > > Ex: abc@bbc.com. > > So, $1 will contain ...'anish kumar <anish@gmail.com>' > > Unless the email contains a quote or a period like: > > Signed-off-by: "J. Random Contributor" <jrc@domain.tld>
and quotes are not required (i.e., are optional) AFAIK.
--- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
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