Re: PROBLEM WITH MATCH FUNCTION IN AWK

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From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 17:20

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From the keyboard of storpis@salsa.engr.ucdavis.edu (Black Lodge Engineering):
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:I am trying to use the "match" function in AWK. The following is a simple
:AWK program that uses "match" but doesn't work. Can anyone help me out:
:
:{ MATFLAG = match($0,/??-??-??/) ; print MATFLAG }

Even if you are using the new awk which understands match, you need to
use real egrep regexps, not shell style file-glob notation.

--tomm
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist
    If you have ever seen the grim word "login:" on a screen, your mind
    is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Death Star.
                John Woods in <14105@ksr.com> of comp.unix.bsd

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