Re: [bug-gawk] Bug with GNU Awk 3.1.4

[Aharon Robbins]

Glad to have helped!  Enjoy,  Arnold

> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:31:55 -0400
> Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] Bug with GNU Awk 3.1.4
> From: Christo M <address@hidden>
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> Hello again guys,
>
> I would like to thank all of you for your very quick and expedited response
> about my problem. It makes me happy to see this kind of dedication to
> the GNU project. I've brought updating Gawk and the entire server as
> a whole to my server administrator and hope that happens soon.
>
> I also appreciate the advice with the character classes and locales!
>
> Thanks again for all the help, cheers,
> Christo Mavrick
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Thanks for taking the time to submit a report.
> >
> > Andy's comments are on target - you are seeing an issue related to
> > locales wherein ranges like [A-Z] can match lowercase characters as
> > well.  This is described in the current manual. See:
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Ranges-and-Locales.html
> >
> > Starting at gawk 4.0, this is no longer a problem; upgrading to the
> > current version is an excellent idea. (Gawk 3.1.4 is almost 16 years old!)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Arnold