From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16547 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 17:54:50 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Jan 2002 17:54:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 835 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2002 17:54:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 16403 Received: (qmail 823 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 17:54:43 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1020106175438.ZM8560@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:54:37 +0000 In-Reply-To: <000a01c16dca$dafdebe0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Comments: In reply to Borsenkow Andrej "compset/prefix and backreferences" (Nov 15, 2:44pm) References: <000a01c16dca$dafdebe0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Borsenkow Andrej , "'ZSH Workers Mailing List'" Subject: Re: compset/prefix and backreferences MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I was clearing out my backlog of mail from over the holidays and came across this one left from longer ago: On Nov 15, 2:44pm, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: } Subject: compset/prefix and backreferences } } Do these commands/conditions use normal mechanisms that activate } backreferences to compare strings? It appears that compset and the corresponding special conditionals do use the standard pattern match code, so they will activate backreferences if extendedglob is set and (#b) is used, etc. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net