Re: test -lt inconsistent about white space

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/28/23 3:08 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> The problem occurs because strtoimax accepts all forms of leading 
> whitespace, whereas Bash accepts only space and tab after the integer. This 
> is inconsistent: Bash should treat trailing whitespace the same way it 
> treats leading whitespace, and should accept all of doit's 'test' commands, 
> as Dash does.

I'm not sure it was a good idea to have strtoimax accept leading vertical
whitespace, but as long as it does, we might as well accept the same set
of whitespace characters following the digit string.

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