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[Jerome Potts <69724@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why are we still using the old 1.3.3 version, and not Thomas Dickey's
1.3.4 ?

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Title:
  Mawk does not support Posix character classes in expressions

Status in mawk package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in mawk package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mawk

  Mawk does not support Posix character classes, such as [:upper:] and
  [:lower:], in regular expressions.  This makes it more difficult to
  write portable Awk scripts (since [A-Z] match lower-case characters in
  Gawk using non-English locales)

  E.G.:

  $ echo x | mawk '/[[:lower:]]/'
  $ echo x | gawk '/[[:lower:]]/'
  x
  $

  Attached is a patch to fix this issue.

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