Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C news newgroup - awk failure
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.192739.5467@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <10885@quest.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 19:27:39 GMT

In article <10885@quest.UUCP> ssb@quest.UUCP (Scott S. Bertilson) writes:
>  I've had problems lately with "gnu.g++.bug" being inserted into my
>active file every time a bogus "newgroup" comes across the net.
>I had about 4 copies earlier today (in addition to the real one).
>  It seems that "awk" and "nawk" aren't able to match the pattern:
>	"^gnu\.g++\.bug "
>against the newsgroup name...

The underlying problem is that `+' is a magic character in awk regular
expressions, just like `.', and the group-matching stuff isn't allowing
for this.  This will be fixed at some point.
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