Re: grep bug involving carets within lists

[Bob Proulx]

Paul Jarc wrote:
> Gilbert C Healton <address@hidden> wrote:
> >     grep --version
> >     grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
> >
> > Any use of caret (^) within [] list processing results in matches.
> 
> I can't reproduce this with grep 2.5.1; apparently, it's been fixed.

I can't reproduce this with grep 2.4.2.  I don't think the problem is
in grep.

I am guessing the problem resides in the libc regular expression
library.  I am currently using glibc 2.2.5 and glibc 2.3.1 with no
problem.

Bob