Hello, All
I learned from book about word anchor "\<" and "\>"; however when I tested them, they seem to work only in grep.
Can anyone suggest word anchor that can be used in grep, awk, perl ...?
In perl, the word anchor is \b
Thank you.
Is there any word anchor for AWK?
Don't know about other awk implementations but gawk does have these egrep like regexp characters. From man gawk :
\y matches the empty string at either the beginning or the end
of a word.
\B matches the empty string within a word.
\< matches the empty string at the beginning of a word.
\> matches the empty string at the end of a word.