On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:27:13PM +0100, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > What makes you think the awk solution is any more portable than the Perl > > solution? I would much rather determine what is happening than to just > > give up on the Perl solution. Please take a look at the definition of > > those functions and make sure they actually match the regex. You could > > try upgrading your Perl version. >... > I've just finished testing the AWK script with gawk 3.0.6 > under Win98. It works flawlessly and produces the same > output as under Unix. Additionally, I've now verified that > Solaris' nawk handles the script.
Excellent. > I'm quite reluctant to spend time on upgrading Perl or trying > to find a workaround for a bug in Perl, if we have a suitable > solution for all those problems at hand. Check for *duplicates* in your output. I don't think the Perl one was missing the exports -- I think you're getting dups now. > > This is a useless conversation until we have those answers. > > OtherBill/anyone else? Anything to add? The Windows thing only does a search/replace. It does not need Perl. IOW, we can safely say that Windows doesn't require Perl. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
