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bug#66714: [FIXED] Expr substr on plus symbol


From: petabaud51
Subject: bug#66714: [FIXED] Expr substr on plus symbol
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 20:58:24 +0100
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NEVERMIND, IT'S ON 'INFO EXPR'.
Could you folks please add it to 'man expr'?

XXX
Greetings,
I'm not sure if this is the intended UNIX/POSIX behaviour, but on:
< expr substr a 1 2
, I get:
a
, which is right, but on:
< expr substr + 1 2
I get:
expr: syntax error: missing argument after ‘2’

On expr "$line_of_text" 1 2, this error is thrown if the line is a simple '+'. A real-world scenario is getting the first character of each line in bulk, crashing if the line is '+'.

< expr --version
expr (GNU coreutils) 8.32

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