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 ======================================================================
