Re: How to use [[ string =~ regexp ]]?

[Peter Volkov]

On Вск, 2006-05-21 at 15:55 -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
> [a-z] matches only one charater, but the pattern is not required to
> match against the entire string. 

On Вск, 2006-05-21 at 13:57 -0600, Mike Stroyan wrote:
> The =~ regexp match will match a substring by default.  You can use ^ and $
> to anchor the expression to the start and end of the string.

Yes! That was what I missed.

On Вск, 2006-05-21 at 22:40 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: 
> It seems reasonable that quoting any part of the rhs to the =~
> operator should cause it to behave in the same manner.
> 
> Since the arguments to [[ don't undergo any of the expansions that
> require quoting to protect them, there's no reason for =~ to act
> differently than the other operators that do pattern matching.

Never noticed that. This is really interesting.

Thank you all for your answers,
Peter.

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