U. Mutlu
Thank you. But on the "POSIX Extended Regular Expression Syntax" page the escape sequence \w is very well listed:
I should have explained this more thoroughly. I did not say that POSIX does not support \w at all. What I said was:
I suspected that Perl would support the escape sequence \w inside a [] character set, but POSIX extended might not. The tests I ran affirmed those suspicions.
POSIX extended supports \w, but NOT inside a [] character set. For POSIX extended, the regex [\w\-\.~/]+ is the same as [w\-\.~/]+. Inside of [], POSIX extended sees \w as a literal "w". You can test this yourself if you have an up-to-date version of the egrep shell command. |+| M a r k |+| Mark Stallard Business Application Services Global Business Services Information Technology Raytheon Company (business) 978-436-8487 (cell) 617-331-5443 stallard@raytheon.com 880 Technology Drive Billerica, MA 01821 www.raytheon.com This message contains information that may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive mail for the addressee), you should not use, copy or disclose to anyone this message or any information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please so advise the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation.
