Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:36:29 -0800 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: awk's curly braces (regex) Message-ID: <3605b86a5de658159efd2e014a75b0e1@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <1446670398.91534.358.camel@freebsd.org> References: <20151104211008.00006c16@gmail.com>, <1446670398.91534.358.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:53:18 -0700 Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote
> On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 21:10 +0100, rank1seeker@gmail.com wrote:
> > 10.2-RELEASE-p6
> >
> > # awk --version
> > awk version 20121220 (FreeBSD)
> >
> > # echo 2015 | awk '/^[0-9]/ {print}'
> > Prints '2015'
> >
> > # echo 2015 | awk '/^[0-9]{4}/ {print}'
> > Won't
> >
> > Why range/interval specified via curly braces doesn't work.
> > PS: Yes I've tried escaping it with backslahes and double backslahes,
> > nada!
> >
> > man pages:
> > --
> > Regular expressions are as in egrep; see grep(1).
> > --
Your SHELL can be a "gatcha", as well.
>
> For what it's worth, the manpage on a linux system I checked also says
> the regex is like egrep, but then it points out that one difference is
> "interval expressions" (curly brace stuff) which it says are "likely to
> break old awk programs" so they're only enabled if --posix or --re
> -interval options are given. Our awk doesn't seem to support those
> options.
>
> I guess our awk might also avoid the interval expressions out of
> caution for breaking old programs; maybe we need to add the options to
> enable them, like gnu awk has.
>
> -- Ian
>
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