standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs)

[Jens Schweikhardt]

The following reply was made to PR standards/54410; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh at schweikhardt.net>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:57:29 +0200

 Upon further investigation, awk appears only to be missing the {} ERE
 operator in its variations. Other ERE operators like + and | work as
 expected. I've sent a bug report to bwk asking if he wants to fix it or
 would be happy with a patch.
 
 Jens