Subject: Re: sed 4.0.5 regexp problem
From: "Peter S Tillier" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:55:48 -0000

----- Original Message -----
From: "Berger David-MGI2063" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
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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