Re: bash-4.0 regression with comments in subshelled case

[Chet Ramey]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> code that uses case statements in a subshell and then uses comments causes 
> bash to trigger a parsing error:
> $ cat test.sh
> echo $(case a in (a) echo ok ;; # comment
> )
> $ sh ./test.sh
> ./test.sh: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
> ./test.sh: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file

As well it should.  Bash parses the contents of command substitutions, so
it will look forever for the missing `esac'.  The error message could be
improved.

Chet

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