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Re: Pattern matching only sometimes case-(in)sensitive in character clas
From: |
Chet Ramey |
Subject: |
Re: Pattern matching only sometimes case-(in)sensitive in character classes |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:30:40 -0500 |
> Machine Type: i386-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 2.05a
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> Pattern matching is only sometimes case-(in)sensitive in character
> classes.
>
> (Which should it be? The documentation - "any character that sorts
> between
> those two characters ['a' and 'b' for '[a-b]'], inclusive, using the
> current
> locale's collating sequence and character set, is matched." - is
> somewhat
> difficult to understand.)
>
> For example, [a-b] will not match B, but [b-c] will.
Look at item 13 in COMPAT and E9 in the FAQ.
Your locale probably sorts `aAbBcC...zZ'.
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