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Re: Inconsistence when checking if a pattern is quoted or not for `==' a
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Clark J. Wang |
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Re: Inconsistence when checking if a pattern is quoted or not for `==' and `=~' in [[ ]] |
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Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:28:40 +0800 |
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 05:18:23PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > Maybe if the man page had read "...to force the quoted portion to be
> > matched as a string" this could have been avoided.
>
> I like this answer. Removing ambiguity ("it" could refer to the
> whole pattern or to the quoted portion) is always good.
>
>
After such a long discussion and I thought about it more. Isn't so difficult
for people to really understand the correct syntax of =~ matching? I just
felt that 3.1 behavior is much more straightforward for me to understand.
--
Clark J. Wang
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