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Date: | Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:25:49 -1000 |
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Subject: | Re: 1.5, 1.7: Bash regex not recognizing word boundaries |
From: | Allen Halsey <allenhalsey AT gmail DOT com> |
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> wrote: > > Indeed - \b is a GNU extension available in glibc's regcomp(), but not > required by POSIX nor available in newlib. =A0Unless/until someone > contributes patches to write the same extensions to the POSIX interface, > then bash won't be able to make use of those extensions. =A0One other opt= ion > would be to ask the upstream bash project if the maintainer would be > willing to pull in GNU regex.c on platforms where regcomp() is > POSIX-compliant but lacks GNU extensions. =A0But it's unfortunately not on > the top of my priority list. > I see, thank you. After a more thorough search of the archives, I see the issue of regcomp not recognizing '\b' as word boundaries came up before: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00362.htm I was relying on the man page for egrep as my guide to regex syntax. I'll now stick to the POSIX compliant subset [1]. If I find the need for more powerful regex, I'll write the script in perl or python. [1]: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html Allen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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