Re: [bug-grep] Re: grep: -i option not working i cronjobs

[Elliott Hughes]

On Nov 14, 2004, at 11:31, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > My problem with REG_ICASE is that it's a regex-compile-time bit. I'd
> > rather it be a regex-execute-time bit, since in gawk the use of
> > IGNORECASE can be changed around dynamically.
>
> That's not a real problem.  You can compile both forms and use the
> appropriate one for matching depending on the current value of 
> IGNORECASE.

(reads GNU awk user's guide.) ah, i see. i didn't know about that. i'm 
not sure i ever used GNU awk. i thought he meant support for Perl-like 
"(?i)" in regular expressions.

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