On 3/5/15 9:51 AM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 02:26:48PM +0000, Jason Vas Dias wrote: >> Good day list, Chet - >> >> I think this is a bug: >> ( set -x ; tab=$'\011'; s="some text: 1.2.3"; >> if [[ "$s" =~ ^some text:[\ $tab]+([0-9.]+) ]]; then >> echo "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"; >> fi >> ) >> -bash: syntax error in conditional expression >> -bash: syntax error near `$tab]+([0-9.]+)' >> > From a quick glance, it does seem like a parsing bug, it should not break with > a syntax error.
It's not a bug; the space between ^some and text needs to be escaped somehow to prevent it breaking words. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/