From: Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@...>
Date: 2004-05-14T22:28:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp Error?

On Fri, 14 May 2004 07:16:57 -0600, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

>> 
>> echo "123-456" | sed 's/.*/X/g'
>> X
>> 
>> Kristof
> 
> yes but
> 
> ~ > echo "123-456" | perl -npe 's/.*$/X/g'
> XX

gawk also returns X:

$  echo "123-456" | gawk '{ gsub(/.*/, "X"); print }'
X

> 
> and sed regexps are not the same as perl/ruby right?
> 
> -a

No, but I would expect the basic ones to behave the same
way.  (sed and gawk have been there before perl/ruby/javascript).  
Is that not a expectation that can be trusted?