On 10/28/23 3:08 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
The problem occurs because strtoimax accepts all forms of leading
whitespace, whereas Bash accepts only space and tab after the integer. This
is inconsistent: Bash should treat trailing whitespace the same way it
treats leading whitespace, and should accept all of doit's 'test' commands,
as Dash does.
I'm not sure it was a good idea to have strtoimax accept leading vertical
whitespace, but as long as it does, we might as well accept the same set
of whitespace characters following the digit string.
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