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Date:      07 Jul 1999 21:49:22 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Repalcement for grep(1)
Message-ID:  <xzpu2rgs0jh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Jamie Howard's message of "Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:44:48 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9907071541400.19722-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>

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Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> writes:
> I am not the internationalization expert, but doesn't [^A-Za-z] and
> [A-Xa-z$] limit you to just English and other Roman languages?  Won't
> [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] be languages independent, presuming regex supports
> it?

They don't DTRT. They only match whitespace boundaries IIRC.

Anyway, I already posted a solution which does not involve screwing
around with the pattern.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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