How to properly formulate search for a maintainer?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 27, 2010, at 16:25, Marko Käning wrote:

> On Oct 27, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> port echo 'maintainer:(\W|^)mk(\W|$)'
> 
> Thanks Ryan for clarifying this one!

So yes. You can use regular expression syntax.

And actually \s is better than \W.

You might think you could just do:

port echo 'maintainer:^mk$'

But this matches the entire maintainer line, not each maintainer on the line individually; this wouldn't catch ports that you maintain with openmaintainer or with another maintainer. So you really want:

port echo 'maintainer:(\s|^)mk(\s|$)'

So this says to match whitespace or beginning of line, then "mk", then whitespace or end of line.