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 10:39 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: problems with backslashes in awk strings and EREs ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0004015) stephane (reporter) - 2018-04-30 10:39 http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1105#c4015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1105#c4014 I must admit I don't remember how I reached that conclusion as it's been over a year since I looked into that. But from what I read of that "item 6", in itself, it would mean that awk '/\./' would be unspecified and awk '/\\./' would match on literal "." (it would yield the "\." ERE which matches a literal dot), and /.../ would be no different from $0 ~ "...", which is not true in any awk implementation (and on of the main points of having a /.../ so we can express EREs less awkwardly than with "..."). 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 2018-04-30 10:39 stephane Note Added: 0004015 ======================================================================
