>On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:51:44PM -0500, Jeremy Nelson wrote:
>> What you meant to do was:
>> 
>>          eval echo $regexec($re test)
>>                             ^------------ Note $ here.
>
>Ahem. My bad for submitting a bad testcase.
>
>In my actual code I had the missing $ but I managed to miss it when
>I tried to distill for testing/submission. Of course, I got
>exactly the same behaviour.
>
>In the end the problem I had was caused by the RedHat regex engine
>barfing on [[:<:]], even though it was documented in the manpage
>(FreeBSDs was fine).

Interesting -- can you give me the exact original RE?  We can others 
who are using redhat (or other linux distros) to see if we can track
this problem down.

Jeremy
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