linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add new exception to repeated word check

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Date:   Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:11:20 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add new exception to repeated word check

On Sun, 2020-10-18 at 12:10 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> print index(" \t.,;?!", '');
> 
> It output 0 in my case. So last words on a line seems to work.
> I don't know if this changes with the perl version though.
> 
> So given this, will it be necessary to change end_char to ' ' ?
> or perhaps change both start_char and end_char to a ' ' to maintain
> uniformity?

It seems it's fine even back to perl 5.6, so it's fine as is.

cheers, Joe