Re: Doubt about expr

2006-09-13 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to Sebastian Kreft on 9/12/2006 8:51 PM: >> I don't know if it is a standard of expr, but I think that is not intuitive >> to write a plus symbol before the string substr if I want to get the length >> of it. > > POSIX states "The use of string ar

Re: Doubt about expr

2006-09-13 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Sebastian Kreft on 9/12/2006 8:51 PM: > I don't know if it is a standard of expr, but I think that is not intuitive > to write a plus symbol before the string substr if I want to get the length > of it. POSIX states "The use of string arg

Re: Doubt about expr

2006-09-13 Thread Paul Eggert
"Sebastian Kreft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know if it is a standard of expr, but I think that is not > intuitive to write a plus symbol before the string substr if I want > to get the length of it. I know that is in the help, but I think > that this shouldn't be necessary. Tradition

Doubt about expr

2006-09-12 Thread Sebastian Kreft
I don't know if it is a standard of expr, but I think that is not intuitive to write a plus symbol before the string substr if I want to get the length of it. I know that is in the help, but I think that this shouldn't be necessary. I haven't seen the source code of the parsing so much, because I