sed not working

Rein Kadastik wigry at uninet.ee
Sat Sep 3 04:04:46 PDT 2005


Rein Kadastik wrote:

> Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2005-Sep-03 12:27:50 +0300, Rein Kadastik wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Lets take the following sed command (from the ncurses MKlib_gen.sh 
>>> script):
>>>
>>> sed -e '/^\([a-z_][a-z_]*\) /s//\1 gen_/'
>>>   
>>
> OK got again some extremely strange testing results.
>
> If there is anywhere in the first token (the length does not matter) 
> one of the following charakters: t, u, v, w, x, y, the transformation 
> fails. Note that with z it works and with a-s it works also.
>
> -- Rein
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Well I have one guess here. In estonian alphabet, the z comes 
immediately after s and before t. So as the regex orders [a-z] the 
characters t, u, v, w, x, y are left out

How to order the sed to use english alphabet?

Rein


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