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RE: Cygwin 1.7 string pattern matching problem with case sensitivity


> From: jean-benoit.ouellet@bell.ca
> 
> Hi!
> I just upgraded Cygwin from 1.5.21-2 to 1.7.8-1 and I'm getting
> problems with case sensitivity.
> Let's assume that 'file.csv' contains these 2 lines:
> Hello, 123
> hello, 456
> 
> The following commands will output both lines instead of the desired
> first line only:
> awk -F, '$1 ~ /^[A-Z]/ {print $0}' file.csv
> grep "^[A-Z]/" file.csv
> 
> There must be something wrong in my setup but I'm running out of ideas
> to find the problem rootcause.
> 
> Jean-Benoit Ouellet
> 

If you set LANG=C you will probably get what you expected.
Your grep command has an extraneous slash (/), so doesn't
print either line.

--Ken Nellis

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