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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.v7,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: awk vs. regular expressions starting with equal sign
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Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 19:18:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 15 19:18:27 1984
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> 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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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