Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2001 21:11:18 +0100 | From | Jakob Østergaard <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] |
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 03:06:27PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob %stergaard wrote: > > > So just ignore square brackets that have "=" " " and ">" between them ? > > > > What happens when someone decides "[----> ]" looks cooler ? > > First of all, whoever had chosen that output did a fairly idiotic thing. > But as for your question - you _do_ know what regular expressions are, > don't you? And you do know how to do this particular regex without > any use of library functions, right?
A regex won't tell me if 345987 is a signed or unsigned 32-bit or 64-bit integer, or if it's a double.
Sure, implement arbitrary precision arithmetic in every single app out there using /proc....
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