[bug-grep] Re: grep: -i option not working i cronjobs

[Andreas Schwab]

Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> writes:

> My problem with REG_ICASE is that it's a regex-compile-time bit. I'd
> rather it be a regex-execute-time bit, since in gawk the use of
> IGNORECASE can be changed around dynamically.

That's not a real problem.  You can compile both forms and use the
appropriate one for matching depending on the current value of IGNORECASE.

Andreas.

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