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Diffstat (limited to 'Src')
| -rw-r--r-- | Src/pattern.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Src/pattern.c b/Src/pattern.c index 68a340919..04d3e3dfb 100644 --- a/Src/pattern.c +++ b/Src/pattern.c @@ -2224,8 +2224,10 @@ pattryrefs(Patprog prog, char *string, int stringlen, int unmetalenin, maxnpos = *nump; *nump = 0; } - /* inherited from domatch, but why, exactly? */ - if (*string == Nularg) { + /* + * Special signalling of empty tokenised string. + */ + if ((!patstralloc || stringlen > 0) && *string == Nularg) { string++; if (unmetalenin > 0) unmetalenin--; @@ -2233,8 +2235,10 @@ pattryrefs(Patprog prog, char *string, int stringlen, int unmetalenin, stringlen--; } - if (stringlen < 0) + if (stringlen < 0) { + DPUTS(patstralloc != NULL, "length needed with patstralloc"); stringlen = strlen(string); + } origlen = stringlen; if (patstralloc) { |