On 2024-08-19 16:36, Ed Morton wrote:
so - what are the plans, if any, for supporting that functionality?
I don't know of any plans. It'd be nontrivial to add the functionality.
We'd like to have it of course.
Ed Morton wrote:
> I asked in the bug-gawk mailing list (see
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2024-08/msg00026.html)
> if/when GNU awk would support the `.*?` ERE construct described in the
> latest POSIX spec
> (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.h
I asked in the bug-gawk mailing list (see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2024-08/msg00026.html)
if/when GNU awk would support the `.*?` ERE construct described in the
latest POSIX spec
(https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html#tag_09_04_06)
as:
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