Re: bash 3.2 match operator problem

[John Gatewood Ham]

Ok, so at least I'm not crazy; there is some kind of bug.
When you have a patch I'm eager to help test it.

Thank you,

JGH

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Chet Ramey wrote:

> > Ok, here is a smaller 3 line test case.  I have attempted to handle
> > the parenthesis as you instructed.  Under bash 3.0.17 BASH_REMATCH
> > gets the 4 pieces.  Under bash 3.2 I only get BASH_REMATCH=()
> > True, it no longer crashes.  But it doesn't work either...
>
> I understand the problem, and have to consider the best solution.  It
> appears that this will require a change to the shell parser, since [[
> is part of the grammar.
>
> Chet