On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:28:43 +0200 =?KOI8-R?B?z8zYx8Egy9LZ1sHOz9fTy8HR?= wrote:
> So what should I do? Escape the } and {?

aha
not sure
it looks like it involves the ksh lexer/parser and how it handles the
tokenization implications of ~(...) mid-stream
dgk and I will talk about it this afternoon

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:04:44 +0200 =?KOI8-R?B?z8zYx8Egy9LZ1sHOz9fTy8HR?= 
> > wrote:
> >> from what I understand a {x,y} in extended regular expressions should
> >> match x times but no more than y times. But ksh (ast-ksh.20120612)
> >> returns no matches at all:
> >> ksh -c 's="abbbc" ; d="${s/~(E)b{2,4}/dummy}" ; print -v .sh.match'
> >
> >> Is this a bug?
> >
> > first run with -x to checjk the parse
> >
> >        ksh -cx 's="abbbc" ; d="${s/~(E)b{2,4}/dummy}" ; print -v .sh.match'
> >
> > and it does show a problem
> > --
> > +t+ s=bbb
> > +t+ d='bbb/dummy}' <======
> > +t+ print -v .sh.match
> > --
> >
> > we can double verify that the regex is ok by using the regex test harness
> > --
> > bin/package use
> > cd re
> > print $'K\t~(E)b{2,4}\tabbbc\t(1,4)' > t.dat
> > ./testregex t.dat
> > --
> >
> > so it looks like a battle between the 2 '}' in the ${...} expansion
> >

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