Re: OT: Gawk match() and numbers in scientific notation

Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> pk wrote:
>>
>> And, even if it is so, that helps only for POSIX character classes; 
>> how does
>> one answer the question "what characters match, eg, '[A-Z]' under a
given
>> locale?".
> 
> Yes. Why does /[A-C]/ (in locale en_GB and de_DE) match the five
characters
> 65 A
> 66 B
> 67 C
> 98 b
> 99 c
> 

What I know from testing with en_GB.UTF-8 locale: the order of 
characters seems to aAbBcCdD...

So [A-C] matches the 5 mentioned characters, but not a lowercase a. 
Accented characters in this range are also matched.

Hermann