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| From: | Bob Proulx |
| Subject: | Re: regular expressions with upper case totally broken in gawk 3.1.1 |
| Date: | Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:08:32 -0600 |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.9i |
Tom Stockfisch wrote:
> Ever since linux WS 3.0 (gawk 3.1.1) my awk programs have been
> mis-behaving.
Changes to support locales. The standards committees require language
sorting in case folded dictionary form now instead of data sorting by
internal data ordering.
> awk '/[A-Z]/ {print}'
> This matches the input
> A
> and also
> b
> but not
> a
The locale sequence is [aAbBcC..zZ] so A-Z matches [AbBcC..zZ].
Bob
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