Bug 92022 - \w is not an alias for [[:alnum:]]
Summary: \w is not an alias for [[:alnum:]]
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sed   
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Version: 9
Hardware: All Linux
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Reported: 2003-05-31 18:21 UTC by Dean K. Gibson
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:54 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 4.0.7-2
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Last Closed: 2003-07-03 13:48:49 UTC
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Description Dean K. Gibson 2003-05-31 18:21:52 UTC 
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Description of problem:
\w is supposed to be an alias for [[:alnum:]] in all regular expressions.  
However in the sed in RH 9, [[:alnum:]] matches digits, whereas \w does not.

\w is an alias for [[:alnum:]] in all recent versions of grep.

\w is an alias for [[:alnum:]] in the sed that was distributed with RH 7.0

It is broken in RH 9



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sed-4.0.5-1.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ANy trivial test case will show the bug!
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Additional info:

The workaround is trivial';  substitute [[:alnum:]] for \w.  However, this bug 
will break a great number of existing scripts.
Comment 1 Dean K. Gibson 2003-06-01 18:10:02 UTC 
\s is also supposed to match a white space character, and that doesn't work 
either.
Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2003-06-17 22:44:08 UTC 
\w and \W fixed in glibc http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2003-06/msg00033.html
and will make it into the next glibc rpm and into sed as well soon.
\s is a bug in sed documentation according to sed maintainer and will be killed
from the docs soon.
Comment 3 Jakub Jelinek 2003-07-03 13:48:49 UTC 
sed-4.0.7-2 in rawhide uses glibc regex instead of its own copy,
so this should be fixed in sed-4.0.7-2 plus recent glibc.
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