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

[John Wildberger]

On January 4, 2004 02:11 pm, William Park wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:19:22PM -0500, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:24:10PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> > > $ cc test.c -o test
> > > $ ./test
> > > -- test={abc_123}, match={abc_}
> > >
> > > What I expected is
> > > -- test={abc_123}, match={abc_123}
> >
> > What are your various LOCALE settings?  This seems like just the kind of
> > problem that an incorrect setting would cause.

I think the problem is more compiler related than related to LOCAL settings.
It appears that gcc compilers with versiojn 3.x.x interpret the regex \w as 
'word' characters that do not include digits. You can try to use any test 
word you like and you will find that match will stop at the first encounter 
of a digit.
There might be a good reason for this, but nowhere have I found any 
explanation in documents related to gcc 3.x.x.
No problems with any distro that has gcc 2.x.x.
John
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