On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, R P Herrold wrote:
wtf ??? These two block qoutes got recormatted by alpine
1.10, or the ML software ... grrrrr
[ Perl has a more predictable and much richer syntax than the [ POSIX basic
(BRE) and extended (ERE) regular expression [ standards. ... other utilities
... have adopted syntax [ similar to Perl's — for example ... PCRE ... [and
others not [ listed each] use regular expression syntax similar to Perl's
[ The meaning of metacharacters escaped with a backslash is [ reversed for
some characters in the POSIX Extended Regular [ Expression (ERE) syntax
-- R
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