Cygwin bash regexp matching doesn't treat "\b" properly
Dave Korn
dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Wed Nov 25 19:58:00 GMT 2009
Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape> wrote on Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:16:22 -0700:
> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know,
> I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> pcregrep - a grep with Perl-compatible regular expressions.
Now you have *three* problems(*).
cheers,
DaveK
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(*) - And I'm being pretty kind to Perl(**) by only counting it as /one/ problem.
(**) - Perl: it's not so much a programming language, more a syndrome.
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