[olug] Character Removal

[Luke -Jr]

On Friday 19 October 2007, Obi-Wan wrote:
> >> Perl has its uses, but is overly bloated for such a simple operation.
> >> Sed(1) does a wonderful job of this sort of thing.  Assuming you want
> >> to keep the first and last parentheses:
> >
> > I used to use sed, but stopped upon learning how unportable it was.
>
> The Unix regex library that drives sed hasn't changed materially
> in decades.  Sed works the same on every version of Unix (and now
> Mac OS/X) that I've ever used in the last 17 years.  Running it
> in Windoze does require using Cygwin or another add-on kit, but
> perl isn't much different in that regard.
>
> I'd be curious to hear what sort of portability issues you encountered.

My sed scripts just didn't work on some BSD my coworker used.
This was in the past year.