sed 4.0.5 regexp problem

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:37:33PM -0800, Berger David-MGI2063 wrote:
> The following should be equivalent, they no longer are:
> 
> 	echo 'T _atan2' | sed -e 's/^T\W*\(\w*\)/FuncSymbol(\1),/
> 
> 	echo 'T _atan2' | sed -e 's/^T[[:space:]]*\([[:alnum:]_]*\)/FuncSymbol(\1),/
> 
> The first one used to work, now only the second one does.  This is not good.

Cygwin sed is just plain vanilla sed.  Since sed is using it's own
homebrew of regex it's very likely a sed problem, not a Cygwin problem.

Corinna

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