On Jan 15, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Michel Talon wrote:
> awk doesn't use perl or python type regular expressions but much
> simpler ones, called "extended". Your constructs are managed by Gnu awk
> with the --posix option only. The following achieves what you want in
> a simpler way
>
>
> niobe% echo "/"|awk 'gsub(/\/+/,"/")'
> /
> niobe% echo "//"|awk 'gsub(/\/+/,"/")'
> /
Someone else on the gawk list provided me with the answer: awk doesn't support
POSIX regexp intervals, even though the spec says awk should. His assumption
was the fact that awk uses {} for separating control statements, but I'm not
sure if that's true or not.
Thanks!
-Garrett_______________________________________________
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