On Dec 6, 2008, at 07:17, John P. Hartmann wrote:

The pattern metacharacters can be specified explicitly, enabling and
disabling at will.

Are the defaults, at least, the familar Unix values?  If not,
can the user set them in LASTING GLOBALV and ignore them thereafter?

2008/12/5 Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

The Unix weenies are apt to complain if their regular
expression skills are not portable.  I'll join them
if those stages, when released, require me to memorize
alternatives for '[' and ']', for example.

Thanks,
gil

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