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Re: [Groff] german localisation
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] german localisation |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:32:13 +0000 |
Hi Joerg,
> 3. ".*" does not work everywhere to identify the pattern. I don't
> remember what exactly is hit by "." but a "\" seems not be included,
> at least. and I think a blank is a hit, therefore to successive
> patterns are not handled as to separate entities. anyway some patterns
> 'slip through'. I replaced the "." by an explicit list of characters
> possible in the pattern (is this complete?).
In case you're interested, `.' in a sed pattern does indeed match a
backslash.
$ perl -le 'print join("", map { chr $_ } 0..255)' |
> sed 's/./x/g' |
> od -c
0000000 \0 x x x x x x x x x \n x x x x x
0000020 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
*
0000400 \n
0000401
Cheers,
Ralph.