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

[William Park]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:19:43PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> William, did you try to compile using -DUSE_GNU_SOURCE -Wall ?

Yes, and the result is the same.  Funny thing is... 'egrep' gives
conflicting results.  Eg.
    $ echo abc_123 | egrep -o '\w+'
    abc_
    $ echo abc_123 | egrep -o '\W+'

One should be inverse of the other.

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