[cl-ppcre-devel] Fwd: string length limit ?

[Mario Maio]

Well, I reinstalled my clisp/emacs/slime bundle switching to Lisp 
Cabinet and I was not able to replicate the problem, so everything's 
fine on that regard.

But I have another question: how do I enter Unicode chars in the rexexp?
For example I need to replace "whatever" with “whatever”, I tried to replace

"([^"\r\n]*)"

with

\u201c\1\u201d

but it didn't work.

I know I could generate and concatenate Unicode chars with Lisp, e.g. 
(code-char #x201c), but it'd be cleaner to do it directly inside the regexp.

Thanks.

Mario



Il 09/04/2011 18:13, Edi Weitz ha scritto:
> This is an issue of the "This should not happen" variety.  Certainly,
> there is no such limit in CL-PPCRE.  If you could provide us (i.e. the
> mailing list) with a self-contained test case that demonstrates the
> problem in a reproducible way, I'll look into it.  Please also make
> sure to let us know which Lisp on which OS you are using and which
> version of CL-PPCRE.
>
> Thanks,
> Edi.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Mario Maio<mario.maio at libero.it>  wrote:
>> Sorry if this is a trivial issue, I'm a common lisp newbie.
>>
>> If I apply the following very simple command (replacing one or more
>> consecutive CR chars with one LF char)
>>
>> (cl-ppcre:regex-replace-all (concatenate 'string (string #\return) "+")
>> mystring  (string #\linefeed))
>>
>> to my string of 455079 characters (loaded from a utf-8 file), some of
>> the last #\return characters are not substituted (even if they should,
>> since if a apply again the command to the resulting string they ARE
>> subsituted).
>> It looks like in the search there is a sort of length limit, or maybe some string length mistake connected to multi-byte characters representation ?
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> Mario
>>
>>
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