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Re: sed 4.0.5 regexp problem
- From: "Peter S Tillier" <peter_tillier at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:55:48 -0000
- Subject: Re: sed 4.0.5 regexp problem
- Organization: Private
- References: <D5A7E45D575DD61180130002A5DB377C02D14F0E@ca25exm01>
- Reply-to: "Peter S Tillier" <peter_tillier at yahoo dot co dot uk>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Berger David-MGI2063" <dberger at motorola dot com>
To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:37 PM
Subject: sed 4.0.5 regexp problem
> The following should be equivalent, they no longer are:
>
> echo 'T _atan2' | sed -e 's/^T\W*\(\w*\)/FuncSymbol(\1),/
>
> echo 'T _atan2' | sed -e
's/^T[[:space:]]*\([[:alnum:]_]*\)/FuncSymbol(\1),/
>
> The first one used to work, now only the second one does. This is not
good.
>
> David
>
I reported this to Paolo Bonzini (GNU sed maintainer). He's
looking into it.
Peter S Tillier
"Who needs perl when you can write dc, sokoban and an unlambda
interpreter in sed?"
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