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Re: regular expressions with upper case totally broken in gawk 3.1.1
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker |
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Re: regular expressions with upper case totally broken in gawk 3.1.1 |
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28 Apr 2006 12:03:35 GMT |
Tom Stockfisch <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ever since linux WS 3.0 (gawk 3.1.1) my awk programs have been
> mis-behaving.
Not really. What actually changed is the definition of "well-behaving
awk program". Writing [A-Z] instead of [[:upper:]] may have been
correct in ancient times, when Unix didn't care about i18n.
> It seems as though all lower case letters except "a" are considered upper
> case!
No. But your "collation sequence" is no longer what it used to be.
Read up on LC_COLLATE and why you should probably have that set to "C"
or "POSIX".
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (address@hidden)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.