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bug #48055: Regex ranges and locales in gnu-awk regextype

Submitter:  Piotr Jurkiewicz <piotrjurkiewicz>
Submitted:  Mon 30 May 2016 06:12:40 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  find Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Wrong result Status:  Works For Me
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  jay
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  4.6.0 Fixed Release:  None
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Wed 30 Nov 2016 05:16:16 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Piotr writes:

I tested this on Debian Stretch (find (GNU findutils) 4.7.0-git) and behavior is correct. So it seems this bug has been fixed.

James Youngman <jay>
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Mon 28 Nov 2016 10:16:23 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Paul Eggert comments:

I can't seem to reproduce the problem on Fedora 24, so perhaps it's been fixed already.

$ ls
a.lower  b.UPPER
$ LC_COLLATE=pl_PL.utf8 find -regextype gnu-awk -regex '.*[a-z]{5}$'
./a.lower
$ LC_COLLATE=pl_PL.utf8 find -regextype gnu-awk -regex '.*[A-Z]{5}$'
./b.UPPER
$ find --version | head -n1
find (GNU findutils) 4.6.0

James Youngman <jay>
Group administrator
Mon 30 May 2016 06:12:40 AM UTC, original submission:  

Starting with gawk 4.0 the traditional behaviour of regex ranges has been brought back. This means that [a-z] matches only lowercase letters and [A-Z] matches only uppercase letters, regardless of locale and collation being set.

See more: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Ranges-and-Locales.html

Can test this with the following command:

$ echo ABC | LC_COLLATE=pl_PL.utf8 gawk '$0 ~ /^[a-b]/' # gawk pre-4.0
ABC

$ echo ABC | LC_COLLATE=pl_PL.utf8 gawk '$0 ~ /^[a-b]/' # gawk 4.0+
[nothing]

Findutils, however, still emulate the old behaviour of gawk in gnu-awk mode. That is, when using certain locales, [a-z] and [A-Z] ranges matches both lowercase and uppercase letters.

Test:

Prepare:

mkdir test
cd test
touch a.lower
touch b.UPPER

Then both commands:

LC_COLLATE=pl_PL.utf8 find -regextype gnu-awk -regex '.*[a-z]{5}$'
LC_COLLATE=pl_PL.utf8 find -regextype gnu-awk -regex '.*[A-Z]{5}$'

returns:

./a.lower
./b.UPPER

instead just one file with appropriate case.

Piotr Jurkiewicz <piotrjurkiewicz>

 

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