Subject: Re: strange regex \W and manual bug
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Caffeinate The World <mochaexpress@yahoo.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/22/2003 10:00:06
--- Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 03:02:45AM -0700, Caffeinate The World wrote:
> > # egrep [\W] -
> 
> try 
> 
>   egrep '[\W]' -

That didn't work either, but the following worked:

---
# egrep '\W' -
!
!
a
2

.
.
_
-
-
---

I guess you can't put use square brackets around  \W. Is that POSIX?

Thomas T. Thai

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