> sent: 25. August 2021 02:14
> from: "Lawrence Velázquez"
> Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, at 4:44 PM, Dietmar P. Schindler wrote:
> > Doesn't the example I gave above show that quotes are removed? If they
> > weren't, how could word aa with pattern a""a constitute a match?
>
> The quotes are handled by the matching process itself, *not* as
> part of the usual shell expansions. …
I didn't say that quotes were handled "as part of the usual shell expansions"
(on the contrary, in my original message I wrote "this expansion series ["Shell
Expansions" performed on the command line] is not performed on the case
command's _word_ and patterns"), so I'm sorry I don't get why you are
emphasizing this.
> … Otherwise these patterns would
> be equivalent, but they're not.
>
> % cat /tmp/foo.sh
> case $1 in
> 'a?a') echo one ;;
> a?a) echo two ;;
> esac
> % bash /tmp/foo.sh 'a?a'
> one
> % bash /tmp/foo.sh aaa
> two
This example nicely shows that I was wrong suggesting that _pattern_ undergoes
quote removal before matching is attempted - thank you for that!
It also tells me that single and double quotes are handled analogously to an
escaping backslash ("discarded when matching"); although one could call this
self-evident, I was misguided by this being explicitly documented for
backslash, but not for quotes.
--
Best regards!
