On 2010-09-19 20:33Z, Lee wrote: > [...awk character ranges are locale-sensitive...] > > Was the reply from the upstream maintainer answered on a mailing list? > (& if so, which one?) I'd like to understand the problem they're > solving.. I get the idea of "[[:lower:]]" working regardless of > collating order of the current char set, but how "[a-z]" gets > translated to something like "[aAbBcCdD...zZ]" boggles my mind. It > seems like they had to have gone out of their way to translate [a-z] > into a case-insensitive RE.
Discussed here: http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/html_node/Character-Lists.html#Character-Lists And here's the same 'aAbBcC' question for 'ls' on solaris: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_thread/thread/8526e1b6eb18fb31/ It's not specific to gawk. > --traditional > Traditional Unix awk regular expressions are matched. The GNU > operators are not special, interval expressions are not available, and > neither are the POSIX character classes ([[:alnum:]] and so on). That option doesn't override the locale; to do that, see: http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/html_node/Locales.html#Locales -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
