Re: [Tcllib-devel] Asking for comments on a ncgi patch (regexp -> string last/...)

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

Arjen Markus wrote:
>> 	if {![regexp -- (.*)=(.*) $x dummy varname val]} {
>>          set varname anonymous
>>          set val $x
>>      }

> Shouldn't this be [string first]? That solution is better IMHO than the 
> [regex] one:
> Consider a string like:
>     x="y=z"

Correct or not, the regexp is string last because it is greedy.  I do 
believe that the example is correct for CGI, where the quoted string you 
  gave would not be legal (it would be encoded).

Jeff