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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:19:12 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs)
Message-ID:  <xzpd5z6xzqn.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20041014092108.GA28831@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> (Tim Robbins's message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:21:08 %2B1000")
References:  <200410132000.i9DK0o3O052401@freefall.freebsd.org> <20041013201820.GA26102@nagual.pp.ru> <20041014092108.GA28831@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> writes:
> The right way to fix this is to use the libc regex code -- trying to fix
> awk's antique regex code is a lost cause.

Is the libc regex code POSIX-compliant and locale-aware?

> 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.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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