Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:36:35 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs) Message-ID: <20041025213635.GA55727@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <xzpd5z6xzqn.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200410132000.i9DK0o3O052401@freefall.freebsd.org> <20041013201820.GA26102@nagual.pp.ru> <20041014092108.GA28831@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <xzpd5z6xzqn.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:19:12PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > Jens, I came up with this patch a while ago and sent it to Andrey in > > private mail: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/awk-re.diff > > that is never going to fly... the patch is too intrusive, it will > make future upgrades a nightmare. I try this patch and it works in simple tests, but I very doubt awk's author will accept it. IMHO better alternative will be to switch back to good old gawk which use GNU regex (POSIXed and well localized too). -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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