On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Graham North wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There seems to be a bug in bash regex.
>
> It doesn't recognise the line start caret:
>
> --Commands:
> ONE="/fred"
> TWO="fred/"
> REGEX='^/'
> echo "$ONE $TWO $REGEX"
> [[ "$ONE" =~ "$REGEX" ]] && echo yes || echo no
> [[ "$TWO" =~ "$
Hi,
There seems to be a bug in bash regex.
It doesn't recognise the line start caret:
--Commands:
ONE="/fred"
TWO="fred/"
REGEX='^/'
echo "$ONE $TWO $REGEX"
[[ "$ONE" =~ "$REGEX" ]] && echo yes || echo no
[[ "$TWO" =~ "$REGEX" ]] && echo yes || echo no
--Result:
/fred fred/ ^/
no
no
Not sure
