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From: John Wiersba <John.Wiersba@medstat.com>
To: "'yzhang@imagenow.com'" <yzhang@imagenow.com>,
        cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: RE: B20.1: egrep doesn't take {n}
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:54:21 -0400
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Try grep -E "I{2}A"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yzhang@imagenow.com [mailto:yzhang@imagenow.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 11:42 AM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: B20.1: egrep doesn't take {n}
> 
> 
> 
> According to the manual of egrep, egrep should be able to 
> process expression like I{2}A. But in fact, it
> doesn't. I have tried:
> egrep I{2}A ocr1.txt
> under Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 4, it returns nothing. 
> I have tried egrep under AIX, and it's working fine.
> 
> Yong Zhang
> 
> (See attached file: ocr1.txt)
> 

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