On Sun, 16 Aug 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:

> Can a source code search pattern like the following become ever usable?
>
> @display@
> @@
> *"%"
> ("d"
> |"ld"
> |"lld"
> )
> ("\n"
> |""
> )
>
>
> elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/Coccinelle/Probe> spatch --parse-cocci show_usage_of_selected_format_strings.cocci
> …
> minus: parse error:
>   File "show_usage_of_selected_format_strings.cocci", line 4, column 0, charpos = 18
>   around = '(',
>   whole content = ("d"

There are no short term plans for this.

julia