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Re: Incorrect example for `[[` command.

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From Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
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Subject Re: Incorrect example for `[[` command.
Date Sun, 22 Sep 2019 13:53:37 -0400
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On 9/21/19 5:34 AM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> On 21.9. 03:12, hk wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply. I was wrong in my report. It does match values like
>> aab and  aaaaaab  in its original form.
> 
> In some systems, yes. (It does that on my Debian, but doesn't work at all
> on my Mac.)
> 
>> It is syntatically correct as a regular expression. 
> 
> [[:space:]]*?(a)b  isn't a well-defined POSIX ERE:
> 
>   9.4.6 EREs Matching Multiple Characters
> 
>   The behavior of multiple adjacent duplication symbols ( '+', '*', '?',
>   and intervals) produces undefined results.

It's ambiguous, but it can be interpreted as valid. I wonder why they used
"undefined" instead of the usual "unspecified."


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