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  Re: Incorrect example for `[[` command. Ilkka Virta <itvirta@iki.fi> - 2019-09-21 01:53 +0300

#15385 — Re: Incorrect example for `[[` command.

On 20.9. 21:39, Chet Ramey wrote:

> The portion of the manual before the example explains BASH_REMATCH and
> BASH_REMATCH[0]. It also says "a sequence of characters in the value..."
> when describing the pattern. 

Yeah, though the preceding paragraph contains both the general 
description of the regex match, and the mention of BASH_REMATCH, so the 
BASH_REMATCH angle could be a bit more explicit.

So I'd probably say that the pattern would match e.g. 'xxx aabyyy', or 
'xxxbyyy' and set $BASH_REMATCH to ' aab', or 'b', respectively. And 
then mention that the ^ and $ anchors could be used.

I know the usual regex behavior is to find a match anywhere within the 
value, but since it's exactly the opposite of how regular pattern 
matches work, it's probably worth mentioning in some way.  (Though I do 
think it's better to document things rather explicitly in general.)


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Ilkka Virta / itvirta@iki.fi

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