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

Steffen Schuler wrote:
>> # Collate characters which are matched by the given range or class
>> gawk -v re=$1 '$1 ~ re { s = s $1 } END { print s }'
>              ^^
> better use: re="$1"

Thanks for the hint.

> 
> Nice script. Works fine. I tested a lot with it and adapted it to my 
> personal suites.
> 

Thanks again. I am however really surprised that no serious programmer 
has ever invented a much better tool to do the same thing (and more, and 
faster). So much time has been invested in all these locale definitions 
and nobody is interested in (providing) a tool that could easily show 
what character ranges and classes exactly mean in a given locale?

Puzzled. Hermann