--with-error-checking=none doesn't work

[Joachim Schrod]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     skip> Feel free to suggest other alternatives for me to try.
> 
> Thinking about it a bit, shouldn't this work and be portable?
> 
>     % echo $with_error_checking | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/^[a-z]*//' -e 's/^,//'
> 
> It gives the correct result in the current situation.  If I am interpreting
> the original r.e. correctly, the aim is to remove the first word from the
> beginning of the string plus any comma that follows it.

Actually, what also works in all seds is:

/usr/bin/sed -e 's/^[a-z]*,\{0,1\}//'

Solaris /usr/bin/sed only supports so-called simple regexps, they 
are explained in regexp(5). There is documented that the \{m,n\} 
construct only works for preceding _single-character_ REs, but not 
for parenthized REs.

	Joachim

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