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gcc / cobol

Date

2026-09-17

Author

Xavier Del Campo Romero

Commit

111c680dc8e2bbcb82c3ffb5bf2d65d6f71c000e

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github

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project: gcc
subsystem: cobol
patch_id: —
commit_hash: 111c680dc8e2bbcb82c3ffb5bf2d65d6f71c000e
source_type: github
headline: Cobol: Fix invalid regex in datetime formatting
tldr: Removes trailing pipe from COBOL datetime format to fix regex compatibility.
author: Xavier Del Campo Romero
outcome: committed
performance_win: false
breaking_change: false
series_id: —
series_parts: []
tags: • cobol
• regex
• compatibility
discussion_id_link: —
bugzilla_pr: —
url: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/111c680dc8e2bbcb82c3ffb5bf2d65d6f71c000e
date: 2026-09-17T00:00:00.000Z

A trailing pipe character was removed from the time_fmt_b datetime format string in the COBOL compiler. This corrects an invalid regular expression that caused failures with some regex implementations while being tolerated by others, improving cross-platform compatibility.