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bug#22045: expr substr returns with an error code 1 when the substring s


From: Matthias Klose
Subject: bug#22045: expr substr returns with an error code 1 when the substring starts with 0
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 21:47:14 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0

found with coreutils-8.23, expr substr returns with an error code when the substring consists of only '0' characters, and the match is started at position 1.

$ expr substr 00001234 3 4; echo $?
0012
0
$ expr substr 1234 1 2; echo $?
12
0

$ expr substr 00001234 1 2; echo $?
00
1
$ expr substr 00001234 1 4; echo $?
0000
1
$ expr substr 00001234 1 5; echo $?
00001
0





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