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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GNU Awk's types of regular expressions
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 22:17:02 +0100
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On 01.12.2024 21:20, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hi. Mack The Knife pointed me at this question.
> 
> This kind of query should go to the bug list (where I'll see it).

Oh, I haven't considered what I wrote and suspected as a bug, so
it didn't occur to me to use a bug-mailing list.

> [ explanations snipped ]
> 
> In short, I jump through a lot of hoops in order to avoid recompiling
> regexps if it's not necessary.
> 
> Hope this helps,

Yes. Thanks for shedding light on the internals. And glad to hear
how it's actually implemented.

Janis