On 29 Dec 2019, at 0:10, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 10:46:52PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: >> >> What if the user wants to factor a hexadecimal value which does not >> happen to include [a...f]? >> >> How about recognizing a prefix of '0x' as a way to indicate the value >> is hexadecimal? > > An interested user will need to add that support. AFAIK, factor(6) > has never recognized the 0x prefix, and I'm not trying to add new > features. I'm simply fixing factor(6) to match its documentation, > and trying to ensure WITH_OPENSSL and WITHOUT_OPENSSL give the > same results where applicable. Well, I'd be willing to do the work to add the new feature, and also make the commit. It'd be a nice easy task for me to tackle... :) But I think documenting that "hex works, but only for hex values which have at least one A-F in the value" is not something that I'd want to draw attention to via documentation. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosih_at_rpi.edu or gad_at_FreeBSD.orgReceived on Sun Dec 29 2019 - 05:34:45 UTC
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