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From: nobu@psrc.isac.co.jp (Nobuhiro Yasutomi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: expr parenthesis bug fix
Message-ID: <93Jun11.13468@psrc.isac.co.jp>
Date: 11 Jun 93 12:17:31 GMT
Organization: ISAC,Inc. (International Sekisui AI Corporation) JAPAN
Lines: 31
There is a little bug in expr. For example,
% expr \( 1 + 1 \) \* 10
becomes "Syntax error". Followed patch fix it.
*** /usr/src/bin/expr/expr.y.orig Wed May 26 16:59:01 1993
--- /usr/src/bin/expr/expr.y Sat May 29 11:00:48 1993
***************
*** 127,133 ****
p = *av++;
if (strlen (p) == 1) {
! if (strchr ("|&=<>+-*/%:", *p))
return (*p);
} else if (strlen (p) == 2 && p[1] == '=') {
switch (*p) {
--- 127,133 ----
p = *av++;
if (strlen (p) == 1) {
! if (strchr ("|&=<>+-*/%:()", *p))
return (*p);
} else if (strlen (p) == 2 && p[1] == '=') {
switch (*p) {
---
Nobuhiro Yasutomi
nobu@psrc.isac.co.jp
NIFTY: MGG02210