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Subject: Re: Crash with =~ in script, but not interactively
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Comments: In-reply-to "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>
   message dated "Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:38:35 +0100."
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:47:22 +0000
From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
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"Mikael Magnusson" wrote:
> Yep that worked. Does the =~ operator support backreferences? I didn't
> find anything searching through the manual for the word. This is what
> I ended up with instead which works too:

It uses $MATCH and $match in the same way (no flags required), unless
the option BASH_REMATCH is set in which case it uses the array
$BASH_REMATCH.  See the description of =~ in zshmisc.

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