On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:11:36 +1100 "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the explanation. > There are multiple competing implementations of all of these except > Perl (which competes mostly with its own release history). Heh. I have occassionally been bitten by mawk/gawk differences. One ISTR had to do with whether /[\]/ had instead to be /[\\]/ I once complained to the NetBSD developers that the base system seemed to have a few different regex implementations. I was then informed the actual count was, at the time, 17. I suppose that's an example of competing with your own release. --jkl