Re: dfa.h / dfa.c diff versus gawk attached

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

> Which sounds like an incredible headache,
> grep being so strongly line-oriented.  So maybe grep is not the right
> place to test newlines in patterns ...

I disagree here. With a bit of effort we should be able to change \n to
any single character. Allowing patterns to be record terminators is a bit
harder, but has been done elsewhere and could eventually be ported to grep
as well (not any time soon though).

Further, -z already allows for null-terminated record in files in stead of
end-of-line-terminated records. I know there were many bugs with -z, some
of which may already be fixed. And we'll fix the remaining ones :O)

Cheers,

TAA

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