From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
Cc: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Pattern matching: backslash escaping not active in pattern passed from variable
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:33:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3QidZOWxcaxUDszmHvryRAQZMGiRYZoE5ETWT=BUc_nWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5559577C.1060906@inlv.org>
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org> wrote:
> Peter Stephenson's patch for case pattern matching applied cleanly
> against the latest git code and is working perfectly. Many thanks.
>
> There is another snag I've found in pattern matching, which seems to
> have survived this patch: backslash escaping does not seem match the
> standard if a glob pattern is passed from a variable or parameter. The
> standard says:
[...]
> In any case, I would expect backslash escaping to work the same way
> whether the glob pattern is passed from a variable or parameter or not.
see the GLOB_SUBST option.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-18 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-18 3:07 Martijn Dekker
2015-05-18 8:33 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2015-05-18 8:49 ` Peter Stephenson
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