GNU regcomp(3), regexec(3): '\w'

[Peter L. Peres]

Can you post an example (short) so we can compile and test whether it
works here ?

Peter

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, William Park wrote:

> I'm getting wierd results from GNU regcomp(3) and regexec(3).  I can
> only match letters and underscore with '\w', ie. '[A-Za-z_]'  It doesn't
> seem to match numbers.
>
> According to egrep(1), '\w' is letters, numbers, and underscore; and,
> 'egrep' does work properly.
>
> Am I missing something?
>     - glibc-2.3.2, gcc-3.2.3, Slackware-9.1
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