Re: What's wrong with this expression?

["Daniel Serodio (lists)" <daniel.lists@mandic.com.br>]

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Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2011-10-17 at 19:27 -0200, Daniel Serodio (lists) wrote:
>> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>> On 17 October 2011 23:09, Daniel Serodio (lists)
>>>>      [[ "foo" ~= "x" ]]&&   echo true
>
>> Ooops. Error copy'n'pasting. The actual line in the script that fails is:
>>
>>       if [[ ! "${PATH}" =~ $regex ]] ; then
>
> See, this is why reporting the _actual_ code which causes an error
> helps; or, if you want to simplify, at least test that the failure still
> happens with the simplified version.
Mea culpa indeed. I tried to simplify the problem but ended up 
complicating it.
> This was a bug, fixed on 2010-10-10 and the fix included in the release
> of zsh 4.3.11.  The current version of zsh is 4.3.12.  Negated patterns
> and tests combined with&&/|| failed prior to that when using the =~
> operator.
>
> If you are running 4.3.11 or newer, please state which version you're
> using and preferably show the minimum needed to reproduce, starting from
> "zsh -f".
Thanks a lot. This computer is running zsh 4.2.6, I'll try to have it 
updated.

Regrards,
Daniel Serodio