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Blasphemy, that’s not regex that’s just fancy grep
I don't actually know whether POSIX grep would support named groups :o
Don't have you have to use the
-Pflag?which is just perl mode
Yes, but perl mode has more features.
I don't fully disagree but you are walking on a fine line...
any idea what the re in grep stands for?