On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Stefan Moebius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > warning: unportable BRE: `^/.*': using `^' as the first character of > the basic regular expression is not portable;
That's funny. The GNU man pages of expr(1) are a bit vague here (they talk about "anchored" expressions in context of the : operator) - at least the man pages installed on my RedHat 7.3 box. The FreeBSD and Mac OS X pages state that a leading ^ would be added implicitly and it seems to work on Solaris as well. So I think we'll go without the leading ^. This seems to be POSIX.2 conformant as well. > So basically, the modification works as expected. Great, thanks. Stefan
