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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: "Daniel Serodio (lists)" <daniel.lists@mandic.com.br>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this expression?
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:21:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111017212121.GB37547@dan.emsphone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9C9997.3050306@mandic.com.br>

In the last episode (Oct 17), Daniel Serodio (lists) said:
> I'm trying to troubleshoot a script that works with bash but fails with 
> zsh, and it uses the "regex match" operator. What's wrong with this 
> expression?
> 
>      [[ "foo" ~= "x" ]] && echo true
> 
> Fails with "zsh: condition expected: ~="

Try with =~ instead.  Your line fails on bash as well:

$ [[ "foo" ~= "x" ]] && echo true
bash: conditional binary operator expected
bash: syntax error near `~='

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com


  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-17 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-17 21:09 Daniel Serodio (lists)
2011-10-17 21:21 ` Dan Nelson [this message]
2011-10-17 21:21 ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-10-17 21:27   ` Daniel Serodio (lists)
2011-10-17 21:30     ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-10-17 21:31       ` Daniel Serodio (lists)
2011-10-17 21:43         ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-10-17 21:49           ` Daniel Serodio (lists)
2011-10-18  4:19     ` Phil Pennock
2011-10-18 13:08       ` Daniel Serodio (lists)
2011-10-19  8:26         ` Phil Pennock
2011-10-18  6:28     ` Benjamin R. Haskell

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