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Subject: Re: standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended
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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).

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