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Date:      Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:48:27 -0500
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        Zoltan Frombach <tssajo@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Either I do something wrong or there is a regexp bug in sed !!
Message-ID:  <1100476106.10768.4.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.com>
In-Reply-To: <BAY2-DAV16kTgbLYluL0001ec55@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY2-DAV16kTgbLYluL0001ec55@hotmail.com>

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On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 18:39, Zoltan Frombach wrote:
> match anything! After spending like an hour investigating this, I realized 
> that the + after my bracket expression ( I'm talking about this part here: 

Normal.

> According to the sed man page, the regexp syntax that is used by sed is 
> documented in the re_format man page. And according to the re_format man 
> page: "A piece is an atom possibly followed by a single= `*', `+', `?', or 

You need to read it more carefully.  There are two kinds of regular
expressions, "basic" and "extended".  sed, ed, and grep speak BRE
syntax, whereas awk and egrep speak ERE syntax.  + is special only in
ERE syntax.

(And then there's GNU, where the difference between BRE and ERE is that
some things use a preceding backslash in BRE and don't in ERE, and vice
versa, so GNU sed does what you want if you use \+ instead of +.)

-- 
brandon s. allbery    [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]     allbery@kf8nh.com
system administrator      [WAY too many hats]        allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ.         KF8NH



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