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To: Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: Repalcement for grep(1)
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 07 Jul 1999 21:49:22 +0200
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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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