[Perlfect-search] indexer.pl

[Jerrad Pierce]

sub load_excludes uses a bad regexp to check for comments.
I have some files which have # in the name that I wish to exclude
and cannot do so with the current regexp. Below is a patch to
improve the exclusion rule loader.

--- indexer.pl~ Tue Apr  9 03:22:54 2002
+++ indexer.pl  Wed Feb 19 02:50:22 2003
@@ -579,17 +579,21 @@
 sub load_excludes {
   if (-e $NO_INDEX_FILE) {
     open (FILE, $NO_INDEX_FILE) or (warn "Cannot open $NO_INDEX_FILE: $!" and next);
-    while (<FILE>) {
-      chomp;
-      $_ =~ s/\r//g;        # get rid of carriage returns      
-      $_ =~ s/(\#.*)//g;    # ingore comments
+    while (chomp($_ = <FILE>)) {
+      next if /^\s*#/;      # ignore comments
+      $_ =~ s/(?<!\\)(\#.*)//g;
+
+      my $readable = $_;
+
+      $_ =~ y/\r//d;        # get rid of carriage returns      
       $_ =~ s/[\/\s]*$//;   # remove any trailing spaces and slashes
-      next if( ! $_ );
-      print "\t- $_\n";
+      next unless $_;
       
       $_ = quotemeta;       # escape all non-alphanumeric characters
       $_ =~ s/\\\*/\.\*/g;  # except for the * which is replaced by .*
-      push @no_index, $_;
+      $_ =~ s/\\\\\#/#/g;   # and # which is a special case
+      push @no_index, qr/$_$/;
+      printf "\t%s =>\n\t\t%s\n", $readable, qr/$_$/;
     }
     close (FILE);
   } else {
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