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Re: Case insensitivity seems to ignore lower bound of interval


From: Eric Bischoff
Subject: Re: Case insensitivity seems to ignore lower bound of interval
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:03:52 +0200
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Le jeudi 28 avril 2011 17:24:28, Paul Jarc a écrit :
> Eric Bischoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Although it is nice to have accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date
> > documentation, I don't think this is a documentation issue. Sorry if I
> > sound stubborn, but I still think this is simply a bug ;-).
> 
> Note Arnold's earlier comment:
> 
> Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I do agree that the behavior is suprising, disconcerting, undesirable,
> > and so on.  For this reason, the upcoming version of gawk translates
> > ranges of the form [d-h] into '[defgh]' before compiling the regular
> > expression.

OK, at that time I did not understand how that would solve the problem (nor 
even  why that was relevant).

That's really good news for all awk developpers. Thanks for pointing me to 
that comment again, Paul.


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