Paul Jarc wrote:
> Peter Volkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> $ [[ "string" =~ "[a-z]" ]] && echo something
>> something
>
> [a-z] matches only one charater, but the pattern is not required to
> match against the entire string. You can force it to match the whole
> string by using "^" to anchor the pattern to the beginning of the
> string, and "$" to anchor it to the end:
> [[ string =~ ^[a-z]$ ]]
Paul is correct; that is the piece I was missing (I am distracted by
the Cleveland-Detroit game).
Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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