Re: XBD ERN 7 -- regcomp and sed

[Henry Spencer <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Geoff Clare wrote:
> > is there any decision/consensus on the relationship between
> > sed and <regex.h>?
> 
> I would hope that there is general agreement that it would be a
> bad thing for the standard to require different behaviour for BRE
> subexpressions in sed than in regcomp()/regexec().

I would say it is specifically desirable that the standard require them
to be the same in all respects.  (This might not be entirely feasible due
to backward-compatibility constraints, sigh.)

                                                          Henry Spencer
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