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From: mikpe@majestix.ida.liu.se (Mikael Pettersson)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: s/A*./B/g editor bug?
Message-ID: <1389@majestix.ida.liu.se>
Date: 20 Oct 89 00:38:46 GMT
References: <3522@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <741@ccssrv.UUCP>
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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In article <741@ccssrv.UUCP> perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) writes:
>In article <3522@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> bink@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (9704) writes:

[describes a bug in ed: s/b*a/c/g maps `aaaa' to `caca' instead of `cccc']

>Anyone care to try it out on a 2bsd or a V7 system?

On our pdp11 (2.10bsd), ed produces the incorrect result (caca) while
sed does the right thing (cccc).
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Mikael Pettersson, Dept of Comp & Info Sci, University of Linkoping, Sweden
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