Re: [gawk] RE bug??

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

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On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:11:11AM +0930, Stephen Davies wrote:
> > "Silver" matches the regexp.
> > You probably meant /^[[:upper:][:digit:]]+$/

> Correct but it does not match the second.

"Silver" and "Actinium" both match /[[:upper:][:digit:]]+/ and
/[A-Z][A-Z0-9]+/

You have to add anchors to the regex, ^ to the beginning, $ to the end.

HTH,
        Stepan