On 09/06/2018 12:39 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
In article ,
Eric Blake wrote:
But bash could be taught to convert any regex that contains a range with
both endpoints ASCII into a different bracket expression before handing
things over to regcomp(). That is, if the user is matching against
[a-d
In article ,
Eric Blake wrote:
>But bash could be taught to convert any regex that contains a range with
>both endpoints ASCII into a different bracket expression before handing
>things over to regcomp(). That is, if the user is matching against
>[a-d], bash hands [abcd] to regcomp() instead.
On 9/6/18 10:23 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> But bash could be taught to convert any regex that contains a range with
> both endpoints ASCII into a different bracket expression before handing
> things over to regcomp(). That is, if the user is matching against [a-d],
> bash hands [abcd] to regcomp() i
On 09/06/2018 09:17 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 9/5/18 4:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Or, you can use bash's 'shopt -s globasciiranges' which is
supposed to enable Rational Range Interpretation, where even in non-C
locales, a character range bounded by two ASCII characters takes on the C
locale defini
On 9/5/18 6:48 PM, Miguel Amat wrote:
> Thanks for your response Eric, please find my attached screenshot
> testing both solutions. Seems like setting LC_ALL=C in the environment
> works fine while 'shopt -s globasciiranges' does not (also I could be
> testing this the wrong way, first time using s
On 9/5/18 4:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Or, you can use bash's 'shopt -s globasciiranges' which is
> supposed to enable Rational Range Interpretation, where even in non-C
> locales, a character range bounded by two ASCII characters takes on the C
> locale definition of only the ASCII characters in
On 9/5/18 2:50 PM, mamatb@mamatb-laptop wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> It seems like bash built-in regex matches some symbols that shouldn't.
There are a couple of things to consider here.
1. Bash doesn't have a "built-in" regexp
