On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Sheri wrote:

> If it presupposes the shell would do the printf'ing, I don't think that 
> would work in the Windows command environment.

Quite.

> Without the custom string, just 3 choices for line terminators mapped to 
> "\n", "\r\n" or "\r", would be an improvement.

That should be similar to the input choices, and straightforward to do.

> If you felt like making a heavyweight enhancement to pcregrep, you could 
> invite a format string for the entire match plus the line break. The 
> string could include escapes and tokens for pcre whole match ($0) and/or 
> numbered or named substrings (e.g., $1 or $<name>). "Hello $1: $3\r\n"

I don't like this because it is starting to turn pcregrep into pcreawk 
or pcreperl. It's moving the program from doing a "finding" job into 
doing a "processing" job, which is a different kettle of fish.

Philip

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