On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 23:33:38 +0000 hancooper <hancoo...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Friday, August 20, 2021 8:00 PM, Kerin Millar <k...@plushkava.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:28:25 +0000 > > hancooper via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell bug-bash@gnu.org > > wrote: > > > > > I am using EPOCHREALTIME and then computing the corresponding human > > > readable form, that can handle > > > changes in locale > > > now=$EPOCHREALTIME > > > printf -v second '%(%S)T.%s' "${now%[^[:digit:]]}" "${now#[^[:digit:]]}" > > > printf -v minute '%(%M)T' "${now%[^[:digit:]]}" > > > printf -v hour '%(%H)T' "${now%[^[:digit:]]}"Incidentally, [![:digit:]] > > > does not work there, you need to use the POSIX-specified caret (^) > > > instead of an > > > exclamation mark when using character classes. I'm not sure if this is > > > intentional or a bug in bash; man > > > page doesn't seem to mention it. > > > > "If an open bracket introduces a bracket expression as in XBD RE Bracket > > Expression, [...] the <exclamation-mark> character ( '!' ) shall replace > > the <circumflex> character ( '^' ) in its role in a non-matching list in > > the regular expression notation." > > > > So says POSIX on the matter of pattern matching notation. In other words, > > only the exclamation-mark is POSIX-specified, although bash happens to > > tolerate the use of a circumflex, in which case it should behave in the > > exact same way. Are you able to show a concrete example of one behaving > > differently from the other? > > > I could do with some help separating the integer and the fractional part from > a floating point number, > particularly for the situation where the number starts with a period. > > t="13.357713" > > # integer part of time interval > ts="${t%%[![:digit:]]+([:digit:])}" # remove longest match from back > # 13.877597, remove .877597 > > # fractional part of time interval > fr="${t##*([:digit:])[![:digit:]]}" # remove longest match from front > # 13.877597, remove 13. "[:digit:]" is missing the additional pair of square brackets that would have it be treated as a character class name. Assuming that the extglob option has been enabled, try this. ts=${t%%[![:digit:]]+([[:digit:]])} fr=${t##*([[:digit:]])[![:digit:]]} If it's only the value of EPOCHREALTIME that you are concerned with, your approach could perhaps be simplified on the basis that it has a well-defined format of %u.%06u, where "." may also be some other radix character. t=$EPOCHREALTIME ts=${t:0:-7} fr=${t:(-6)} -- Kerin Millar