Re: [bug-gawk] Strange matching behavior

[Aharon Robbins]

> > The "[." is seen as the opening characters in a POSIX collating sequence.
> > If you remove the "." or swap the order of the "." and the "*", it
> > works as expected.
> > 
> > So, it's not really a bug after all.  The error message is not as helpful
> > as it could/should be, but that's from the GLIBC regex code, and the
> > error of unmatched [ or [^ is returned in a lot of cases.
>
> Of course, that makes perfect sense. I totally forgot about collating
> sequences. Thanks!

So did I.  That's why I needed to use the debugger to find it. I
have updated the error message to be more helpful.

Thanks,

Arnold