From: Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:04:11 GMT
Subject: Re: t9401 fails with OS X sed
Message-ID: <F721B376-F4E6-4274-9A6E-BD1CFCBDA39F@adacore.com>
In-Reply-To: <609AC6E7-45CD-4472-B1DC-FBB785D6B815@gernhardtsoftware.com>


On Oct 24, 2012, at 23:54, Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> wrote:

> It works if I change \s to [[:space:]], but I don't know how portable that is.

As \s is shorthand for the POSIX character class [:space:], I'd say the latter
should be more portable: anything accepting the shorthand should also accept
the full character class. If not, you probably only care about horizontal tab
and space, for which you could just use a simple regular expression. Just a
literal space and tab character between square brackets is probably going to be
most portable, though not most readable.

  -Geert