Hi,
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > Just for the record: I believe that \{1,\} might be portable.
> >
> > Yeah, I obviously looked at the page I quoted that describes
> > what's in and what's not in BRE definition ;-)
> >
> > But in practice, I do not recall ever seeing an older sed that
> > did not understand one-or-more \+ *and* understood \{1,\}. Do
> > you?
>
> Yes, BSD sed (at least DragonFly's, so probably as well FreeBSD-4 (dunno
> about later)):
>
> chlamydia % echo 5ab123x | sed -e 's/[a-z]\+/AAA/'
> 5ab123x
> chlamydia % echo 5ab123x | sed -e 's/[a-z]\{1,\}/AAA/'
> 5AAA123x
> chlamydia % echo 5ab123x | sed -E -e 's/[a-z]+/AAA/'
> 5AAA123x
Thank you for a proper argument. I usually ignore hand-waving POSIX
arguments, but a real-world case changes the situation.
Ciao,
Dscho
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