>> How do you tell what regexp syntax is implied?  That's what I mean by
>> "develop". It may be trivial (" 'regexp' means POSIX" for example) but we
>> never have nailed it down.
> 
> POSIX, anything else is server/implementation dependent extension.

Would that be POSIX-Basic or POSIX-Extended regular expressions?
(Equivalent, I guess, to grep and egrep respectively.)

Ashley.

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