[wplug] Quote of the day

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 23 14:13:35 EST 2005


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:53:00 -0500
David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm up for seeing a regexp talk, too. Many ages ago I gave a talk on
> awk and sed, but I didn't go too deeply into regular expressions.
> 
> I don't use awk or sed for work anymore, but regular expressions are
> still useful to me. Even in the MS world, there are plenty of
> free/gratis text editors that use Perl 5-style regular expressions.

This also raises a question to myself, what are the differences
between the original awk(1) and the gawk(1) implementation.

Hopefully not as much of a difference as gmake(ick) and [bp]make.

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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