Re: failing to match "===="

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
  thank you for your bug report.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:12:59PM +0100, Risto Minev wrote:
> I am having a nightmare trying to match any number of equal signs.
> 
> if this matches:
>       else if ( match($0, "----") != 0 ) {
> why does not this match:
>       else if ( match($0, "====") != 0 ) {
> or this:
>       else if ( match($0, "\-\-\-\-") != 0 ) {

It works for me.  What version of gawk do you use?  Which platform?
Could you provide a complete example?

Stepan Kasal