Re: what matched in a case statement

[jidanni]

Poor Yorick wrote:
> Is there any way to get a handle on what matched in a case
> statement?  Something like this:
> 
> case "lawlesspoets" in
>         *poets)
>                 echo $CASEMATCH one
Well, nobody would do
> case "lawlesspoets" in
in reality you would always have some variable. So just do
CASEMATCH=lawlesspoets; case $CASEMATCH in ...
so there.