Re: htags regex error

[Shigio Yamaguchi]

Hi,
> but a better solution isn't:
> $s =~ s/^(\Q$name\E)/<A HREF=$srcdir\/$html#$lno>$1<\/A>/;
> 
> or even:
> $name = quotemeta($name);
> 
> instead of:
> $name =~ s/([^\w])/\\\1/g; ?
> 
> 
> I known that quotemeta or \Q do the same thing, but why not using it
> instead of an explicit regex?

Htags is written only by the function of perl4.
The \Q and \E are new function in perl5.
Of course, we can move to perl5 or perl6 but I should rather move to
C language for the performance and the extendibility in the future, I think.
Both gtags(1) and global(1) were also written in perl in a early version.

> We shouldn't also escape html chars in $name?

Are there any troubles? What should we do?
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