On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:36:06AM +0100, Bernd Warken wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 12.12.05 00:12:28:
> >
> > On the whole, for maximum portability, I'd be inclined to adopt the syntax
> > suggested by Zvezdan, i.e.
> >
> > sed -e 's/^.* \([^ ]\{1,\}\)$/\1/' -e '1q'
> >
> The \{...\} construct might be critical as well. So the best way might be to
> replace c+ or c\{1,\} by cc*
>
> sed -e 's/^.* \([^ ][^ ]*\)$/\1/' -e '1q'
>
POSIX sed has \{...\}.
I'm not aware of any sed implementation with which it doesn't work.
However, I'm currently able to test it only on Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and
OpenBSD.
Do you know of any example where it doesn't work?
Otherwise we might go even deeper and say that \(...\) is questionable,
etc. But I think there's no need for it.
The expressions \{...\} and \(...\) is a part of BREs (Basic Regular
Expressions) for a long time.
Just my two cents.
Best regards,
Zvezdan Petkovic
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