Re: nocaseglob and RE matching

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: nocaseglob and RE matching
Date	2019-10-11 10:09 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 9/23/19 1:38 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> Currently nocaseglob and nocasematch both control case insensitivity
> of RE matching (in lib/sh/smatch.c):
> 
>   if (glob_ignore_case || match_ignore_case)
>     rflags |= REG_ICASE;
> 
> However, the documentation suggests that only nocasematch should have
> this effect.  I'm guessing this behavior was in bash-3.1 for
> compatibility with bash-3.0 (in which nocaseglob *was* the documented
> way to turn on case insensitive RE matching, prior to nocasematch
> being added) but it doesn't seem to make much sense now.

Yeah, it's probably time to remove the glob_ignore_case.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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