On 7 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Jamie Howard <howar...@wam.umd.edu> writes: > > On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > > There are two special cases- of bracket expressions: the > > > bracket expressions `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' match the null > > > string at the beginning and end of a word respectively. > > > Perhaps this will help with -w? > > Yes, I received a patch from Simon Burge which implements this. It also > > beats using [^A-Za-z] and [A-Za-z$] as I was and GNU grep does. > > No, because there are scripts out there (e.g. ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk) > which rely on this behaviour.
I just knocked this down to just freebsd-hackers because this only applies here (so far). I am not the internationalization expert, but doesn't [^A-Za-z] and [A-Xa-z$] limit you to just English and other Roman languages? Won't [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] be languages independent, presuming regex supports it? Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
