Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Not as convenient but can't you transform your extended RE
> into basic REs?
>
>     RE{0,n} == RE? RE{0,n-1}
>     RE{m,n} == RE RE{m-1,n-1}

Sorry Bakul, you've lost me here.  These look like awk idioms with unix 
extended regular expressions forms, but I don't really understand them.  In any 
case, even basic REs aren't available in Plan9 awk---right?

-Derek

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