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Hi Janis, seems I am getting hits using what you have pasted. Is there any place I can verify my regex online not being afraid that it is not going to be compatibile with awk?

Peter
– Peter

2015-03-29 20:10:34 +00:00
Commented Mar 29, 2015 at 20:10
I know there are regexp test pages on the Web, so a search will very likely make you find something. Search for BRE (basic regular expressions) or ERE (extended regular expressions). Those regexps are standard on Unix. (Syntax differences in different applications will only be whether and how regexp meta-characters are escaped or not.) I think the syntax of the regexps that are supported by [GNU] awk are also described in the GNU awk manual.

Janis
– Janis

2015-03-29 20:17:43 +00:00
Commented Mar 29, 2015 at 20:17
FWIW in mawk it appears not to work with POSIX class [[:digit:]] but does work with range [0-9] (at least on my Ubuntu box: mawk 1.3.3). See also bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk/+bug/69724

steeldriver
– steeldriver

2015-03-29 21:22:33 +00:00
Commented Mar 29, 2015 at 21:22

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