diff --git a/2001/schweikh/README.md b/2001/schweikh/README.md
index ed6e615e1..8be091c6a 100644
--- a/2001/schweikh/README.md
+++ b/2001/schweikh/README.md
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
# Best one-liner
- Jens Schweikhardt
- Marconi Communications
- Schlartaeckerweg 3
- D-71384 Weinstadt
- Germany
-
- http://www.schweikhardt.net/
+Jens Schweikhardt
+Germany
+
## To build:
@@ -20,6 +16,16 @@ make
./schweikh string string2
```
+### INABIAF - it's not a bug it's a feature! :-)
+
+This program will very likely crash or do something else if you do not give it
+two args.
+
+Note also that the glob pattern must match the whole string. See the author's
+comments for details and a workaround.
+
+There's also no way to escape meta characters.
+
## Try:
```sh
@@ -35,17 +41,16 @@ Do you get the pattern here?
## Author's remarks:
This one-liner program is a glob pattern matcher. It understands
-the glob characters `*' meaning `zero or more characters' and
-`?' meaning exactly one character, just like your unix shell.
+the glob characters `*` meaning 'zero or more characters' and
+`?` meaning exactly one character, just like your unix shell.
-Run it with two args, the string and the glob pattern. The exit
-status is 0 (shell true) when the pattern matches, 1 otherwise.
-The glob pattern must match the whole string, so you may want to
-use * at the beginning and end of the pattern if you are looking
-for something in the middle.
+Run it with two args, the string and the glob pattern. The exit status is 0
+(shell true) when the pattern matches, 1 otherwise. The glob pattern must match
+the whole string, so you may want to use `*` at the beginning and end of the
+pattern if you are looking for something in the middle.
You can use it for your shell scripting needs similar to a silent grep
-(and without stdout redirected to /dev/null):
+(and without stdout redirected to `/dev/null`):
```sh
if prog "${VARIABLE}" ''; then
@@ -55,32 +60,35 @@ else
fi
```
-Bugs: there is no way to escape the meta characters. Dammit Jim, I'm a
+### Bugs
+
+There is no way to escape the meta characters. Dammit Jim, I'm a
one-liner, not a regexp lib.
-All obfuscation is obviously in the recursive m() function, an 86
+All obfuscation is obviously in the recursive `m()` function, an 86
character glob pattern evaluator, returning nonzero for a match:
-* just a single complex return expression.
-* nested ternary operator ?: to save on if/else verbosity.
-* short circuiting && and || to save even more on if/else verbosity.
-* Subtraction instead of an equality operator in "*t - 42".
-* ASCII codes for '*' and '?'.
-* careful use of blanks even though this year's rules have extended
+
+* Just a single complex return expression.
+* Nested ternary operator `?:` to save on if/else verbosity.
+* Short circuiting `&&` and `||` to save even more on if/else verbosity.
+* Subtraction instead of an equality operator in `*t - 42`.
+* ASCII codes for `*` and `?`.
+* Careful use of blanks even though this year's rules have extended
that resource limit.
-* the source is a complete preprocessed C program. Because it communicates
+* The source is a complete preprocessed C program. Because it communicates
with the world out there by means of argv and the exit status, there
is no need for stdio bloat. An asm guru could surely squeeze this
program in less than a screenful.
-* indent(1) is probably not too helpful.
+* `indent(1)` is probably not too helpful.
The recursion wonderfully and magically takes care of iteration and
backtracking. I could tell you how it works but then I would have to
-kill^Wrequest an NDA from you :-) Run it under a debugger with several
-inputs, it will be quite helpful and instructive. Handling of '?' is
-straightforward; for '*' start out with '*foo' and 'foo*' against 'foo'.
-How does it deal with sequences of adjacent `*'? How could this be
-improved? If all else fails, recode the ?: operators with if/else and
-try again. For extra credit implement character classes like [a-z].
+kill request a NDA from you :-) Run it under a debugger with several
+inputs, it will be quite helpful and instructive. Handling of `?` is
+straightforward; for `*` start out with `*foo` and `foo*` against `foo`.
+How does it deal with sequences of adjacent `*`? How could this be
+improved? If all else fails, recode the `?:` operators with if/else and
+try again. For extra credit implement character classes like `[a-z]`.
## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
diff --git a/bugs.md b/bugs.md
index 08d5b66ad..1764bd55d 100644
--- a/bugs.md
+++ b/bugs.md
@@ -1297,6 +1297,17 @@ points.
Although it is independent of endianness both systems need the same character
set. In other words both have to be ASCII or EBCDIC - not one of each.
+## [2001/schweikh](2001/schweikh/schweikh.c) ([README.md](2001/schweikh/README.md))
+## STATUS: INABIAF - please **DO NOT** fix
+
+This program will very likely crash or do something else if you do not give it
+two args.
+
+Note also that the glob pattern must match the whole string. See the author's
+comments for details and a workaround.
+
+There's also no way to escape meta characters.
+
# 2002
There was no IOCCC in 2002.