A NOTE has been added to this issue. 
====================================================================== 
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1105 
====================================================================== 
Reported By:                stephane
Assigned To:                
====================================================================== 
Project:                    1003.1(2016)/Issue7+TC2
Issue ID:                   1105
Category:                   Shell and Utilities
Type:                       Enhancement Request
Severity:                   Editorial
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     New
Name:                       Stéphane Chazelas 
Organization:                
User Reference:              
Section:                    awk 
Page Number:                 
Line Number:                 
Interp Status:              --- 
Final Accepted Text:         
====================================================================== 
Date Submitted:             2016-12-05 21:52 UTC
Last Modified:              2018-04-30 09:59 UTC
====================================================================== 
Summary:                    problems with backslashes in awk strings and EREs
====================================================================== 

---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 (0004014) geoffclare (manager) - 2018-04-30 09:59
 http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1105#c4014 
---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
When this was discussed in the April 26th teleconference, one point that
was made is that the statement in the bug description:

| And /ERE/ is not a RE quoting operator that allows for escape
| sequences like "...", but the /.../ are like strong quotes and
| it's up to the regexp engine to interpret those \f.

is incorrect. See "Lexical Conventions" item 6 (on page 2507).  For the ERE
token /\56/ the ERE seen by the regexp engine contains a <period> (assuming
ASCII encoding). 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
====================================================================== 
2016-12-05 21:52 stephane       New Issue                                    
2016-12-05 21:52 stephane       Name                      => Stéphane Chazelas
2016-12-05 21:52 stephane       Section                   => awk             
2018-04-25 22:27 McDutchie      Note Added: 0003999                          
2018-04-26 08:53 joerg          Note Added: 0004000                          
2018-04-30 09:59 geoffclare     Note Added: 0004014                          
======================================================================


Reply via email to