On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 10:50:13AM -0700, Dan Bornstein wrote: > I found a case where the regex evaluator doesn't seem to be finding the > longest possible match for a given expression. The expression works as > expected on an older version of Bash (3.2.57(1)-release > (arm64-apple-darwin22)).
Bash uses the system's (libc) version of regex(3), so the difference you're seeing is presumably caused by the apple-darwin22 part, rather than the bash 3.2 part. (Or conversely, caused by the linux-gnu part rather than the bash 5.2 part.)
