[BusyBox] BusyBox SED bugs reproducible at will.

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <001f01c1ceb4$d6dfa260$8400000a at piglet> you wrote:
> 
>   echo "12345" | sed -e "s/[[:space:]]*/,/"
>   ,12345 (BUG!!!)

This is NOT a bug but regular behavious, since '*'  matches  zero  or
more  occurrances  of  the  pattern,  thus  it matches the zero space
characters at the start of your string.

[This also explains  the  problem  with  's/<any_char>*/,/g'  but  of
course this must not run into an endless loop.]

Wolfgang Denk

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