On Вск, 2006-05-21 at 15:55 -0400, Paul Jarc wrote: > [a-z] matches only one charater, but the pattern is not required to > match against the entire string.
On Вск, 2006-05-21 at 13:57 -0600, Mike Stroyan wrote: > The =~ regexp match will match a substring by default. You can use ^ and $ > to anchor the expression to the start and end of the string. Yes! That was what I missed. On Вск, 2006-05-21 at 22:40 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > It seems reasonable that quoting any part of the rhs to the =~ > operator should cause it to behave in the same manner. > > Since the arguments to [[ don't undergo any of the expansions that > require quoting to protect them, there's no reason for =~ to act > differently than the other operators that do pattern matching. Never noticed that. This is really interesting. Thank you all for your answers, Peter.
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