Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.bugs.v7,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: awk vs. regular expressions starting with equal sign Message-ID: <4789@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 19:18:27 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4789 Posted: Sat Dec 15 19:18:27 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 19:18:27 EST References: <4770@utzoo.UUCP>, <1570@pur-phy.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 > Try /\=/. It worked for me. About six people have told me this, or variants of this. I *thought* it was clear from my original posting that I *know* how to work around the problem. My point was the absence of a *fix*, not the absence of a workaround kludge. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry