Re: The (X) flag.

[Frank Terbeck <frank.terbeck@rwth-aachen.de>]

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>:
> On Jun 28,  6:57am, Frank Terbeck wrote:
> }
> } Now I thought it might throw an error when a given pattern doesn't
> } match:
> 
> No.  Failing to match the pattern is not an error, it's one of the
> expected possible outcomes.
> 
> } However, I guess, I'm misunderstanding the manual. So, could someone
> } please give an example of what this flag does?
> 
> The errors involved are lexical errors, that is, failures in tokenizing
> the string.  I can't immediately think of one that affects ${var#pat},
> but here's an obvious one with the (Q) flag:
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Okay, that makes it a lot clearer for me.
Thank you.

Regards, Frank