> I don't get this; I must be missing something.  If I do, in bash-3.1:

I get identical results with fully-patched versions of bash-3.1 and bash-3.2:

$ cat x17
V="alphabet"
[[ $V == alphabet ]] && echo yes 1
[[ $V == "alphabet" ]] && echo yes 2
[[ $V == 'alphabet' ]] && echo yes 3
[[ $V =~ alphabet ]] && echo yes 4
[[ $V =~ "alphabet" ]] && echo yes 5
[[ $V =~ 'alphabet' ]] && echo yes 6
$ ../bash-3.2-patched/bash ./x17
yes 1
yes 2
yes 3
yes 4
yes 5
yes 6
$ ../bash-3.1-patched/bash ./x17    
yes 1
yes 2
yes 3
yes 4
yes 5
yes 6
$ ../bash-3.2-patched/bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.9(7)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    [EMAIL PROTECTED]    http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/


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