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Re: Regular expression in awk

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Aharon Robbins wrote:

> Geoff Clare  <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> wrote:
>>The ERE equivalent of the BRE you used with grep is:
>>
>>PV1|([^|]*|){16}|X
>
> It may be that awk on AIX does not support interval expressions
> (x{16}); this should be tested too.

They are required by the POSIX/UNIX standard, and AIX is certified
as conforming.

I suppose it's possible that they are not supported by default in
awk and you need to do something to set up a conforming environment,
but I think that's unlikely.

-- 
Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>

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