From: Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: <n> == <n->?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 20:32:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E12cZ3g-0006EH-00.2000-04-04-20-32-16@mail11.svr.pol.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Johan Sundstr m"'s message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 19:00:42 +0200." <Pine.GSO.4.02.10004041813220.28633-100000@astmatix.ida.liu.se>
Johan Sundstr m wrote:
> Another thing I forgot at first when on the subject: for quite some time
> now, <x-y> has been ungreedy about its matches, to my disappointment. This
> means that <1-2>* will match 1, 2, 10 through 29, and so on, instead of a
> single, closed range, as at leas I would hope when constructing such a
> pattern.
I thought about this when I changed it, and came to the conclusion that the
new behaviour was a simple matter of consistency with patterns. *
guarantees to match anything at all, so 123potato is bound to match <1-2>*.
I don't think it's an option to make * not match numbers in this one case.
You probably don't need to be told all the workarounds; I suppose the
simplest is <1-2>[^0-9]*.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>
Work: pws@CambridgeSiliconRadio.com
Web: http://www.pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-04 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-03 23:09 Johan Sundström
2000-04-04 1:16 ` Zefram
2000-04-04 17:00 ` Johan Sundström
2000-04-04 19:32 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2000-04-04 21:01 ` Zefram
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