Re: failure on [a-z] regex at gawk

[Rodrigo Hjort]

Thanks, Stephan!

That was it! I just included "LC_ALL=C" in the top of my script and it worked!


2005/5/31, Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>:
> Hello,
> 
> the problem is with locales:
> In UTF-8 locales, the ordering is aAbB...zZ.  So the range a-z includes
> all letters but capital Z.
> 
> Observe:
> $ LC_ALL=en_GB.utf-8 gawk 'BEGIN{print gensub(/[a-z]+/, "X", "g", "aZalZz")}'
> XZXZX
> 
> To fix the issue, add
> 
> LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL
> 
> near the top of each shell script which uses awk.
> 
> HTH,
>         Stepan
> 


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