Re: Regular Expression matching operation =~

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Regular Expression matching operation =~
Date	2019-09-23 09:21 -0400
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References	<slrnqofqq2.43b.trepidation@vps.jonz.net> <932d9cd1-fcfc-c085-a909-291c4013a9ed@case.edu>

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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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