Re: PCRE mode for sed
John Cowan <[email protected]>
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Bob Proulx scripsit: > > But even if not,... any OS is free to choose then whether to compile sed > > with PCRE or not. > > True. But then scripts using it could never rely upon the feature. How about packaging a psed that always uses PCREs? That way, there's no problem with standardization: sed is sed, psed is not. -- Winter: MIT, John Cowan Keio, INRIA, [email protected] Issue lots of Drafts. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan So much more to understand! Might simplicity return? (A "tanka", or extended haiku)