xgrep = AST grep -X or AST grep -A, it does augmented egrep with AND
and NOT operators

gawk has huge problems with multi byte locales and simply doesn't work
for us. I hoped AST has some thing better.

Olga

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Janis Papanagnou
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Does AST have no awk? I was looking for a POSIX awk which may have
>> xgrep-like extensions or better...
>
> Assuming, by xgrep, you're searching an XML grep'er?
>
> There's the GNU awk version which can be restricted
> by a command line option to be strictly POSIX. And
> there's the XML extension of GNU awk, xgawk, that
> supports parsing of XML structures.
>
> That's not AST, though. But why reinvent the wheel?
>
> Janis
>
>
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