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Subject: Re: [ast-users] [ksh93] [[ == ]] does not update ${.sh.match}?
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> See following example:
>
> $ echo ${.sh.version}
> Version jM 93u 2011-02-08
> $
> $ [[ foo == foo* ]] && echo matched
> matched
> $ typeset -p .sh.match
> typeset -a .sh.match=(foo) <== this is fine
> $
> $ [[ bar == bar ]] && echo matched
> matched
> $ typeset -p .sh.match
> typeset -a .sh.match=(foo) <== it's not updated
> $
>
.sh.match only gets set for pattern matches, not for string matches.
If the right hand side does not contain any of the special pattern
characters, it will do a string match. Using douoble quotes around
the right hand operand will do a string match.
David Korn
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