On Thursday 28 May 2009 22:38, pk wrote: > Yes, if the second argument is quoted, it's treated as a literal string. > If you want the regex behavior, you should not quote it: > > if [[ "$Var" =~ +([:digit:]) ]]; then . > > That behavior changed at some point during 3.2 (too lazy to check now).
Actually, that happened in 3.2-alpha:
f. Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now forces
string matching, as with the other pattern-matching operators.
