sed: fix breakage added by zero length match code

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c
index 85c8466..0fe82f3 100644 (file)
--- a/editors/sed.c
+++ b/editors/sed.c
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ static int do_subst_command(sed_cmd_t *sed_cmd, char **line_p)
                 * second is "" before "d", third is "" after "d".
                 * Second match is NOT replaced!
                 */
-               if (prev_match_empty || start != 0) {
+               if (prev_match_empty || start != 0 || start != end) {
                        dbg("inserting replacement at %d in '%s'", start, line);
                        do_subst_w_backrefs(line, sed_cmd->string);
                } else {

diff --git a/testsuite/sed.tests b/testsuite/sed.tests
index 375beb5..12b36ae 100755 (executable)
--- a/testsuite/sed.tests
+++ b/testsuite/sed.tests
@@ -302,6 +302,10 @@ testing "sed zero chars match/replace advances correctly 2" \
        "sed 's [^ .]* x g'" \
        "x x.x\n" "" " a.b\n"
 
+testing "sed zero chars match/replace logic must not falsely trigger here" \
+       "sed 's/a/A/g'" \
+       "_AAA1AA\n" "" "_aaa1aa\n"
+
 # testing "description" "commands" "result" "infile" "stdin"
 
 exit $FAILCOUNT