On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, R P Herrold wrote:

wtf ???  These two block qoutes got recormatted by alpine 
1.10, or the ML software  ... grrrrr

> [ Perl has a more predictable and much richer syntax than the [ POSIX basic 
> (BRE) and extended (ERE) regular expression [ standards.  ... other utilities 
> ... have adopted syntax [ similar to Perl's — for example ...  PCRE ... [and 
> others not [ listed each] use regular expression syntax similar to Perl's

> [ The meaning of metacharacters escaped with a backslash is [ reversed for 
> some characters in the POSIX Extended Regular [ Expression (ERE) syntax

-- R