Re: Regular Expression matching operation =~

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On 9/22/19 5:44 PM, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
> In moving a bash ver. 4.3.48 (Ubuntu) program to a bash ver. 5.0.11 
> (FreeBSD) environment I encountered either a bug, a quirk, or 
> an undocumented feature.

It's not exactly undocumented, more undefined. You can't count on the
NUL character or the empty string doing anything in particular.

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Re: Regular Expression matching operation =~ Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2019-09-23 09:21 -0400
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