Re: gawk "\\" "(" strange behavior ...

[Jeff Chua]

ok, that clears up everything now.

Thanks you both. Andreas and Stepan.


Jeff
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On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Stepan Kasal wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm afraid that Andreas' answer might be mis-interpreted, so please let
> me expand on it:
>
> > > It works with /\(/ and /\)/,
>
> These are both correct.
>
> > > but why does /)/ works and not /(/ ?
>
> And these are both invalid, the behaviour is undefined, as Andreas said.
>
> Stepan