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Subject: Re: Quoted parameter parsing glitch
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Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Aug 22, 10:25pm, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> }
> } As I said - they must match. "${foo:-""}" is valid but "${foo:-"}" - not.
> 
> The question is whether "${foo:-"}"}" is valid.
> 

No. Pairs of quotes and braces must match.

-andrej