Re: query-pr bug when category name has a "-"?

[Rick Macdonald]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Mark Schlegel wrote:

Those query-pr args are all case-insensitive regexp. If you want only ABC,
then use -c '^ABC$'.

> Using query-pr version 3.111
> 
> Suppose you have a category directory ABC 
> and category directory name containing a dash 
> (say, ABC-4) which contains a PR called 4200
> 
> I've just noticed that if I point query-pr to -c
> of "ABC"  I get an unexpected return:
> 
> query-pr -c ABC --summary 4200
> 4200 jim  ABC-4    open    serious   medium  jim  ABC TR 3634: blah blah ....
> 
> 
> which should have not found a match since 4200 is actually in ABC-4,
> note that the summary states the correct category name for "4200" in
> the -c ABC-4 case, but it just didn't match the -c option.
> 
> and then what I would expect when I point to the category that contains
> 4200:
> 
> query-pr -c ABC-4 --summary 4200
> 4200 jim  ABC-4    open    serious   medium  jim  ABC TR 3634: blah blah ....
> 
> 
> so the behavior suggests that if two category names 
> are the same up to the point where there's a "-" and
> the PR didn't exist in the shorter category, it 
> then searches the next one by falling through.
> 
> does this mean that "-" should be considered an illegal
> char to use in database directory names?  Is this a 
> bug fixed by now?
> 
> thanks,
> Mark
> 
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...RickM...