On Sep 18 11:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 17 22:30, Lee wrote:
> > On 9/16/10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Sep 15 18:30, Lee wrote:
> > >> I don't know if this is just a problem with the cygwin version of awk,
> > >> me misunderstanding something or what, but it looks like gsub isn't
> > >> working correctly in awk:
> > >> $ sh /tmp/test.awk
> > >> s= ::0:: should = ::S0::
> > >>
> > >> $ cat /tmp/test.awk
> > >> awk '
> > >> BEGIN {
> > >> s="Serial0"
> > >> gsub("[a-z]","",s)
> > >> printf("s= ::%s:: should = ::S0::\n", s)
> > >> exit
> > >> } '
> > >>
> > >> I also tried it with IGNORECASE=0 and with "awk --traditional" - same
> > >> results.
> > > Works fine for me:
> >
> > Comment out the 'set LANG=" and gsub works fine:
> > $ echo $LANG
> > C.UTF-8
> >
> > $ sh /tmp/test.awk
> > s= ::S0:: should = ::S0::
> >
> > $ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > $ sh /tmp/test.awk
> > s= ::0:: should = ::S0::
> >
> > So awk gsub works for me again - thank you!
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, why would setting LANG to en_US break
> > case-sensitivity in gsub?
>
> I don't know either. I just asked the upstream maintainer. At least it
> isn't a Cygwin problem, since it also behaves the same on Linux.
I got reply from the upstream maintainer. Case-sensitivity in gsub is
not broken, rather it's really a language dependent difference.
If LANG is "en_US" or "en_US.utf8", then the regular expression "[a-z]"
does *not* correspond anymore to the ASCII codes. Rather it corresponds
to something like "[aAbBcCdD...zZ]", independent of the actual character
encoding ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8.
What you really want is this:
BEGIN {
s="Serial0"
gsub("[[:lower:]]","",s)
printf("s= ::%s:: should = ::S0::\n", s)
exit
}
The "[[:lower:]]" expression always catches all valid lowercase letters,
independent of the langauge, territory, and charset used.
Corinna
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