FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT dodds.net>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:04:48PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> Thanks Steve!  Am I missing something, or is that totally broken?  

> http://193.110.243.4/hppd/hpux/Shells/mawk-1.3.3/man.html

> "mawk conforms to the Posix 1003.2 (draft 11.3)"

> Posix Regular expression for awk are defined by the OpenGroup: 

> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/awk.html#tag_04_06_13_04

> which refers to 

> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_01

> which clearly defines [:space:] as a basic RE character class expression. 

Yes, you're correct.  This appears to be
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314323>.

Since mawk hasn't had an upstream since 1997, I don't know what the
prognosis is for getting this fixed, really; though <cough> since I'm the
package maintainer, I suppose I could have a look.

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