Subject: Re: bin/650: possible bug with regular expressions in awk
To: None <ram@cs.arizona.edu>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/20/1994 11:47:16 
Are you sure you're expecting the correct thing?  As far as I know,
the \'s are interpreted once when the string is parsed, and again when
the regexp is compiled.  If you double the \, it works as expected.