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> feature. I am talking about {m}/{m,}/{m,n}
FC> at the place where you use ?, *
FC> or +.
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
aaaa
aaaa
aaaaa
aaaaa
aaaaaa
0 ~>
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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.
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