Re: Regex: A case where the longest match isn't being found

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/27/23 1:04 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023, at 12:25 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 20:30 Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > I suspect the difference between the versions is how the regexp is
> > > unquoted while it is being read, with version 3 interpreting [^\'] as
> > > "character class excluding newline, backslash, and quote" and version 5
> > > interpreting it as "character class excluding newline and quote".
> >
> > That seems right
>
> How?  If it were right, wouldn't these produce different results?

It's not. bash-current and bash-3.2 pass the same string ("\") and
pattern ("[^']") to sh_regmatch.

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