On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:35:20PM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote:
> Our awk do not recognize range regex operator ("{n,m}" syntax). But man
> page says:
>
> "awk supports extended regular expressions (EREs). See re_format(7) for
> more information on regular expressions."
>
> This behavior is same as in FreeBSD. gawk recognize range operator in
> POSIX mode ("--posix").
>
> As far as I understand, either our awk should recognize range operator
> (better) or this non-POSIX behavior should be mentioned in awk(1).
> Sample diff for man page provided; I didn't dig deeply in code to fix it
> enough yet.
>
slightly different diff to yours committed. thanks for the mail,
jmc
