Is POSIX regex really implemented?

[Elmar Kurgpold]

Maybe I am interpreting the documentation wrong (it's been know to
happen), but I can't get many of the extended regexes to work as described
in the Tutorial, under the "Regular expressions" section.  I've always
avoided and worked around this, but now's the time to speak up. :-)  I
don't think this has worked in any version between 1.5.3 and 1.6.3.  Below
is a sample test script, as always.


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control:
       actionsequence = ( editfiles )
       scratchdir = ( /tmp )

editfiles:
    any::
    { $(scratchdir)/regex.test
      AutoCreate
      EmptyEntireFilePlease
      AppendIfNoSuchLine "boundary1 boundary bbboundary"
      AppendIfNoSuchLine "white         space (<-- space tab)"
      AppendIfNoSuchLine "123 456 789"
    }

    { $(scratchdir)/dollar.foo
      ReplaceAll "\bboundary\b"        With "YES"
      ReplaceAll "white[:blank:]space"  With "YES"
      ReplaceAll "(123|789)"  With "YES"
    }
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