On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:59 PM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote: > Subject: Re: [ast-developers] [bug] ksh sh.1 man page does not describe > pattern modes like ~(X), ~(P) etc and their USAGE > -------- > >> BUG: The ksh sh.1 man page does not describe pattern modes like ~(X) or ~(P). >> >> I stumbled upon >> https://mailman.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-users/2010q2/002827.html >> by accident but the ksh man page does not describe any of these or >> give usage hints. >> >> IMO the ksh man page should describe all these pattern modes, >> including USAGE examples. >> >> > > The ~(X) behavior is documented in the last ksh93 man page on > the beta web site.
OK. But the new man page still lacks examples and without it's hard to make out how this stuff works. I still haven't figured how to enable/disable greedy matching. > The ~(P) is intended to match perl regular expressions but is not > complete and is not documented. OK. But what about documenting it with the warning that it is "beta" and incomplete for now? David _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
