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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: POSIX Regular Expression Funnyness
Message-ID: <2962@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 1 Feb 89 17:07:08 GMT
References: <4118f7b1.ae48@apollo.COM> <5980041@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Organization: Xenix Support
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Why didn't they add a few backslash-escaped metacharacters, again?

	\:alpha:
	\-ch-
	\=o=

This would certainly be backwards-compatible, and would have the added
advantage of nicer aesthetics.
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