From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>,
Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: (#m) and "case" alternation
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:44:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <141111074407.ZM30753@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141111125423.GA4343@chaz.gmail.com>
On Nov 11, 12:54pm, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
}
} Some unexpected behaviour:
}
} $ case abc in ((#m)a* | b*) echo $MATCH; esac
It shouldn't be unexpected, because it's documented:
m
Set references to the match data for the entire string matched;
this is similar to backreferencing and does not work in filename
generation. THE FLAG MUST BE IN EFFECT AT THE END OF THE PATTERN,
i.e. NOT LOCAL TO A GROUP.
(all-caps mine).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-11 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-11 12:54 Stephane Chazelas
2014-11-11 13:23 ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-11-11 15:44 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2014-11-11 17:43 ` Stephane Chazelas
2014-11-11 17:59 ` Peter Stephenson
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