Re: standards/38127: awk's: regexps should treat { and } as special, but as regular characters

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR standards/38127; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: standards/38127: awk's: regexps should treat { and } as special,
 but as regular characters
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 02:54:57 +0000

 On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:20:01PM +0000, cheusov%tut.by@localhost wrote:
  > NetBSD version of awk (nawk) violates SUS when treating curly braces as
  > regular characters.
  > 
  > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_04
 
 This is not fixed:
 
    macaran% echo 'hhhi' | gawk '/h{2}/ { print $0; }'
    hhhi
    macaran% echo 'hhhi' | awk '/h{2}/ { print $0; }'
    macaran% 
 
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