Re: [gawk] RE bug??

[Stephen Davies]

G'day Stepan.

How do Silver and Actium match  /[A-Z][A-Z0-9]+/ ?

I agree that my code was the original problem rather than gawk but do 
not see how the above can match.

Cheers and thanks,
Stephen


On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 08:50 pm, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> [please keep address@hidden in the Cc:, so that our conversation is
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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
> 
> 

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