Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:18:23 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs) Message-ID: <20041013201820.GA26102@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <200410132000.i9DK0o3O052401@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200410132000.i9DK0o3O052401@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:00:50PM +0000, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR standards/54410; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs)
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:57:29 +0200
>
> Upon further investigation, awk appears only to be missing the {} ERE
> operator in its variations. Other ERE operators like + and | work as
> expected. I've sent a bug report to bwk asking if he wants to fix it or
> would be happy with a patch.
Just to note.
There more POSIX non-compliant places exists in one-true-awk, like no
collating for [a-z]-type regexp ranges.
GNU awk does right job here.
--
Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/
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