i also wanna say no extraction method is no good for a coding language ( no extraction as is only minus ( substraction ) is possible but no .. ) why dont you just enable backreferences \<number> of match for ${var/ and // and impent a regex variant, as you do by [[ =~ anyway
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 4:00 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <fxmb...@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 <g...@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. >>> >>>