Re: Another bug? [wml 2.0.6]

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 02:01:57PM -0800, Ken McGlothlen wrote:
> I just don't understand this one.  I've abridged the original files
> extensively, but this excerpt still shows the problem.  This is in WML 2.0.6,
> of course.
[...]
> 	while( $body ) {
> 	    if( $body =~ /^(<[^>]+>|[^a-z]+|&\w+;)(.*)$/ ) {
> 		# got a tag or non-lowercase characters or entities
> 		$result .= $1;
> 		$body = $2;
> 	    } elsif( $body =~ /^([a-z]+)(.*)$/ ) {
> 		# got lowercase characters
> 		$result .= qq{<font size="$lcsize">} . uc( $1 ) . "</font>";
> 		$body = $2;
> 	    }
> 	}
> 	return( $result );
[...]
> wml appears to go into an infinite loop.

And indeed, the loop above never breaks if $body begins with a character
other than '<' or a lowercase letter.  Maybe you should add
            } else {
 		$result .= $body;
 		$body = '';

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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