I notice that FreeBSD's (and OpenBSD's) awk treats a repetition qualifier like "{2,4}" in a regular expression as a literal string instead of as it's documented in the manual pages. Below are some examples. The FreeBSD awk manual refers to grep to define the regular expressions it supports...
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