Bug#355442: mawk: missing Posix ERE curly braces

2021-08-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 01:20:27PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > The version of mawk shipped with bullseye still has this bug (or what > upstream calls a known limitation). yes. I spent some time last year (July-October) working on mawk, and have most of this feature implemented. However, I

Bug#355442: mawk: missing Posix ERE curly braces

2021-08-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
The version of mawk shipped with bullseye still has this bug (or what upstream calls a known limitation). I've also verified that the bug occurs with upstream mawk, version 1.3.4-20200120, both with and without the --without-builtin-regex compile time option. unicorn:~/tmp/mawk-1.3.4-20200120$

Bug#355442: mawk: missing Posix ERE curly braces

2010-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Fabien COUTANT wrote: I am talking about {m}/{m,}/{m,n} at the place where you use ?, * or +. The sample program: BEGIN { s=abacab r1=(a[bc]){2,3} r2=(a[bc])(a[bc])+ print s~r1, s~r2 } should print 1 1 but it doesn't. With Aleksey Cheusov’s

Bug#355442: mawk: missing Posix ERE curly braces

2006-03-09 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
FC On Monday, 06 March 2006, you (Aleksey Cheusov) wrote: Look at this patch http://www.mova.org/~cheusov/pub/mawk_external_regexp.patch It allows to link mawk with external regexp library. 0 ~mawk '/^a{3,5}$/' aa aaa aaa a a aa 0 ~ FC

Bug#355442: mawk: missing Posix ERE curly braces

2006-03-06 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
FC Package: mawk FC Version: 1.3.3-11 FC Severity: normal FC mawk claims to comply with Posix 1003.2. I can't check it directly, but FC checking instead SUSv2 (which I think equals Posix concerning Awk), it FC mandates that regular expressions support the interval repetition count FC

Bug#355442: mawk: missing Posix ERE curly braces

2006-03-06 Thread Fabien COUTANT
On Monday, 06 March 2006, you (Aleksey Cheusov) wrote: Look at this patch http://www.mova.org/~cheusov/pub/mawk_external_regexp.patch It allows to link mawk with external regexp library. 0 ~mawk '/^a{3,5}$/' aa aaa aaa a a aa 0 ~ -- Best regards, Aleksey

Bug#355442: mawk: missing Posix ERE curly braces

2006-03-05 Thread Fabien COUTANT
Package: mawk Version: 1.3.3-11 Severity: normal mawk claims to comply with Posix 1003.2. I can't check it directly, but checking instead SUSv2 (which I think equals Posix concerning Awk), it mandates that regular expressions support the interval repetition count feature. I am talking about