hello,
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 07:22:57PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > I the same mood: I realized recently that no implementation of awk
> > seems to implement quantifiers which is really desapointing.
> Awk uses EREs, so if by quantifiers you mean {n,m}, then awk most
> certainly supports this.
I just double checked. works on OBSD as well as the other versions of
awk that are available on my debian.
does() if $awk '/ba{3}b|ba\{3\}b/' | grep -qF baaab
then >&2 echo "$awk does"
else >&2 echo "$awk don't"
fi <<-%
baaab
baab
%
for awk in gawk mawk "busybox awk"; do does
done
which leads me to
gawk does
mawk don't
busybox awk does
Sorry about the fake news :/
Regards,
Marc
