(This thread should move to comp.lang.advocacy.) On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 16:40:08 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
>OK, I'll bite: What is BSF please? I do know of PCRE (though I really do not >like the Perl RE syntax, I prefer Posix/gawk RE syntax) but BSF is a new >acronym to me. > I try to keep my skill set portable. I avoid Bash-isms, {g|n}awk, ... Now that you say PCRE is different, my interest in it is diminished. It seems to me that many users of {g|n}awk learned a primitive awk lacking many features such as tolowerr(), touppor(), the "in" operator, ... now assimilated in POSIX awk. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN