Re: repost of alike 'missing a way to extract data'

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

as for goal, and no believance, it is handling quoting, string issues,
nothing else
you may know if you think about it im a freelance code there is nothing now
but major functionality issues
..

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 3:57 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
wrote:

> what, dude, of course you can regex eerything right
> that is, for no quotes
> till non escaped end, ] probably
> for " its till nonescaped "
> and for $' till nonescaped '
>
> i can regex it or extglob it
> hm ?
> but i need the results of grouping of the matches ( '( .. )' )
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 3:39 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 02:44:06PM +0100, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
>> > isnt it obvious ..
>>
>> No.
>>
>> > ${var//@(abc|cde)@(bla|blubb)/\2\1} # just like sed
>> > and an extension for regex there
>>
>> That's a feature request.  Chet can discuss that with you.
>>
>> All I can tell you is that this feature is not in any way suitable for
>> retrieving an element from an associative array.  If it actually existed,
>> which of course it doesn't.
>>
>> > as for example, i can give you my garbage data
>> >
>> > begin='declare -A a' end='declare -p a' per2 'a[$per]=' *
>> > declare -A a=(["\\\\"]="" ["] \$( eval echo shitt )"]="" [$'abc
>> > \034[22]="bar"']="" [$'\034']="" [$'\n']="" [2]="" ["]"]="" [" a
>>  b"]=""
>> > ["' [b"]="" ["\" ["]="" [$'\' [1]=\034']="" ["];eval echo shitt"]=""
>> > [$'foo\034 [2]="blah" ']="" [abc]="" ["abc [22]=\"bar\""]="" [blah]="" )
>>
>> I cannot make ANY sense of this.  I don't know what you're doing or why.
>>
>> Whatever you're doing, it's ridiculously convoluted and obscure.  There
>> is probably some MUCH easier way to achieve the goal.  If you would just
>> tell us the goal, we might be able to help you do it.
>>
>>