look -d ignores white space (with fix)

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#1330

From: Rob McMahon
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1989 09:54

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Look's -d flag disagrees with both sort's and the manual on the treatment of
white space, which makes it error-prone when searching the output from sort.
The manual says it ignores everything except letters, digits, space and tab,
in fact it ignores space and tab too.

Fix:

RCS file: look.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -c -r1.1 look.c
*** /tmp/,RCSt1011460	Thu Jan 26 09:52:14 1989
--- look.c	Tue Jan 24 21:45:14 1989
***************
*** 152,158 ****
  			break;
  		}
  		if(dict) {
! 			if(!isalnum(c))
  				continue;
  		}
  		if(fold) {
--- 152,158 ----
  			break;
  		}
  		if(dict) {
! 			if(!isalnum(c) && !isspace(c))
  				continue;
  		}
  		if(fold) {

Rob
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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
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Subject: look -d ignores white space (with fix)
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Date: 26 Jan 89 09:54:32 GMT
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