Re: another RE problem

[Jim Hart]

You're right. Thanks. I forgot about the overlap.

On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 07:27  AM, Stepan Kasal wrote:

> IMHO, this is right:
> I gather that the original string contains four spaces.
>
> The first match spans from the first one to the second one, including
> both of them.  The double quotes are inserted, as requested.
>
> Then, gawk searches for second match: it starts with the second space 
> and
> ends with the fourth.
>
> No more matches found.
--
Jim Hart