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Re: Documentation Bug Concerning Regular Expressions?

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On 23.9. 19:56, Hults, Josh wrote:
> Hello Bash Maintainers,
> 
> In the currently posted version of the Bash documentation, there is a section regarding Conditional Constructs (3.2.4.2, https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.html#Conditional-Constructs).  Within that section is a portion discussing the [[ ... ]] operator, and within that portion is a discussion of the "=~" regex operator.
> 
> The example given of a regex pattern is:  [[ $line =~ [[:space:]]*?(a)b ]].  (This example is referenced twice)

Yes, that exact example has been discussed for a couple of days, 
starting at this message from last Friday:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-09/msg00042.html


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