Re: [bug-gawk] feature request: expanding escape sequences

[Ed Morton]

On 7/6/2014 1:05 PM, Manuel Collado wrote:
> El 06/07/2014 16:26, Ed Morton escribió:
> > Arnold - I don't believe it can be done fairly easily in any way. For
> > example, wrt your suggestion of splitting on an RE, let's say I define my
> > escape-sequence matching RE as '\[[:alpha:]]`. Well, that's wrong:
>
> Please try this RE:
>
>   /\\(x[0-9a-fA-F]*|[0-7]{1,3}|.)/
>
> It should match every valid escape sequence. And every unnecessarily escaped 
> normal character.
>
> Hope this helps. Regards.

That does identify the escape sequences in my small set of test cases, so 
assuming it works for every case (and it looks like it should) then all that'd 
be left to do is mapping them to their equivalent literal characters. Any 
suggestions on a concise way of doing that?

Thanks,

     Ed.