Re: Incorrect example for `[[` command.

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Incorrect example for `[[` command.
Date	2019-09-21 17:15 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 9/20/19 8:12 PM, hk wrote:

> What is wrong is the description `zero or one instances of 'a''. But if we
> correct the right hand side word to be  `[[:space:]]*(a)?b' that it does
> match what the description says.(the parenthese around `a' could be omitted).

Yeah, that's the typo.

> I was also wrong saying it was a pattern instead of a regular expression.
> It is syntatically correct as a regular expression.

That's true. According to the POSIX ERE definition, the `?' is a special
ERE character in an invalid position (it's only special after a specifier
that matches a single character, not after a separate specifier that
matches multiple characters), so it matches itself.

Chet

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