From: sqlite-users [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Will Parsons
>>>I dug up some old references to investigate this further: >>>a) The UNIX C Shell Field Guide (1986): Ranges in the pattern [lower-upper] mentioned, no mention of negation of pattern. (Presumably even a pattern like "[1-9xyz]" wouldn't be valid either, though this is not explicit.) Try this one: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/pdfs/man71.pdf. In 1971 there is glob, but only for ? and *. >>>What I take away from this is that relying on [^1-9] to mean the same thing >>>as it would in a regular expression is non-portable. If this gets >>>documented, then I think there should be a warning to this effect. >>>As this thread has exhibited, supporting it can even be seen a misfeature, >>>as it encourages confusion between glob patterns and regular expressions. Particularly since modern users might well expect it to be Posix compliant, which it is not. Regards David M Bennett FACS Andl - A New Database Language - andl.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
