#87 special char escaping broken in 15.8 in egrep

[Jason Zhang]

this affects both egrep with escape char as well as special char in finding text string.

comparing 15.5 (which works) and 15.8a, it appears to be caused by the addition of handling $ and ^, which changes the logic on .

attached patch seems to get it working again.

[Jason Zhang]

ticketing system ate the backslash: "which changes the logic on backslash".

a test would be find text string self.init, or egrep the text with . escaped by a backslash.

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

A modified version of this patch is now in CVS