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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:19:12 +0200
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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] awk help; not plan9 matter
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2009/9/17 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
> fn buildre {
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0re =3D 's:^'
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0for(i in `{seq 1 $1})
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0re =3D $re ^ '([^ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ][ =A0 =
=A0 =A0]*)'
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0re =3D $re ^ '([^ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ]):\' ^ $1 ^ $2 ^ :
> }
>
> - erik
>

Yes, I now see yours and Roger Peppe's idea to build a regexps and then use=
 it.
That's true.
Only as I look at your code, not sure if it can stand possible spaces
at the beginning of a line, like
     1 2     3

Thanks
Ruda