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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: POSIX Regular Expression Funnyness
Keywords: Regular Expression,POSIX
Message-ID: <9531@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Jan 89 05:22:33 GMT
References: <4118f7b1.ae48@apollo.COM> <9512@smoke.BRL.MIL> <11148@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <11148@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin) writes:
>I suspect that POSIX is trying to deal with non-contiguous alphabets,
>that is, alphabets where [a-z] does not include all lower-case letters.

I have no objection to the notion of an "alpha class" specifier etc.
In fact it seems like the only possible way to deal correctly with
general locales.  I do object to the notion of denoting a single
character in a special way just because it's a multibyte sequence.

>Their syntax is quite ugly, though.

Yes!