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

Cesar Rabak wrote:
> Hermann Peifer escreveu:
> [snipped]
> 
>> 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?
>>
> Hermann,
> 
> I'm affraid this wasn't seen as necessary as the script would a sort of 
> analysis of the pasta by dissolving in vinegar to separate the egg from 
> flour instead of reading the package's label.
> 
> Those sequences are specified, aren't they?

Oi Cesar,

It's true: the sequences are specified. But it might not be everyone's 
hobby to read through dozens (hundreds) of locale definition source 
files in order to find out what the exact details and differences of a 
character range like [A-C] in various Unicode locales are.

Anyway: I see that there are at least 3 users of my script (Steffen, pk 
and me). It looks like it was worth writing it.

;-) Hermann