Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs223] Infinite loop?
Date: Friday, 21 Feb 2020, 13:22:11

    > Message Posted By: Emily
    >
    > The spec notes that "Some substitutions (e.g., "strwrs -s a a" applied to
    > "a") would not normally terminate," and gives specific instances of this
    > to handle (like when the line is unchanged). Do we need to handle other
    > instances of infinite loops? ...

No.
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    >                          ... I ran
    > $ echo "abababa" |  /c/cs223/Hwk3/strwrs -r ab aba
    > in the terminal, and after 1-2 minutes of letting it go, I control C'd it.
    > Is it okay for our code to do this too?

Yes.  If you run with the -v option,

  % echo "abababa" |  /c/cs223/Hwk3/strwrs -r ab aba | more

you can see what strwrs is doing.

--Stan-