Paul Jarc wrote: > Peter Volkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> $ [[ "string" =~ "[a-z]" ]] && echo something >> something > > [a-z] matches only one charater, but the pattern is not required to > match against the entire string. You can force it to match the whole > string by using "^" to anchor the pattern to the beginning of the > string, and "$" to anchor it to the end: > [[ string =~ ^[a-z]$ ]]
Paul is correct; that is the piece I was missing (I am distracted by the Cleveland-Detroit game). Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash