Subject: Re: [ast-users] Expression to match against '$ ' or '# ' ?
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> What is the correct ~(Elr) expression to match variable "foo" against
> either '$ ' or '# ' ?
> I tried [[ "$foo" == ~(Elr)(\$|#)\ ]] but somehow this doesn' work...
>
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This seems to match against '# ' but not '$ '.
Since $ is special in RE's, and since the $\ will be stripped by ksh,
I would expect that you would need to use
~(Elr)(\\\\$|#)\
or
~(Elr)('\$'|#)\
as the pattern. However, this is not working and it looks like a bug.
David Korn
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