From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu
Subject: Re: 'case' pattern matching bug with bracket expressions
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 20:05:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5555384E.6020902@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150514103003.ZM30746@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 5/14/15 1:30 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Even in bash the space can be left unescaped in some contexts; e.g.
>
> schaefer@burner:~$ var=' '
> schaefer@burner:~$ echo ${var//[ ]/foo}
> foo
Yes. Inside ${...}, the space doesn't delimit a token. The Posix
tokenizing rules specify that.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-15 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-14 13:14 Martijn Dekker
2015-05-14 13:50 ` [BUG] " Martijn Dekker
2015-05-14 14:42 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-14 15:47 ` Martijn Dekker
2015-05-14 15:55 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-14 17:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-15 0:05 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2015-05-14 23:51 ` Chet Ramey
2015-05-15 8:38 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-15 20:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-15 21:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-14 16:17 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-14 17:07 ` Martijn Dekker
2015-05-14 17:43 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-15 0:09 ` Chet Ramey
2015-05-14 23:59 ` Chet Ramey
2015-05-14 21:23 ` Chet Ramey
2015-05-14 23:45 ` Chet Ramey
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