On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:16:40PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 29 January 2006 20:08, William Park wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 07:33:14PM -0500, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> > > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, William Park wrote:
> > > >Let's see...
> > > > a-{b{d,e}}-c
> > > > a-{bd,be}-c
> > > > a-bd-c a-be-c
> > > >
> > > >It looks okey, I think.
> > >
> > > Except that b{d,e} expands to 'bd be', not 'bd,be'.
> >
> > Hmm... no. Internally,
>
> arguing for what goes on internally shouldnt have bearing on what the
> user result is ... and in this case, the user result would be as Chris
> says imho -mike
b{d,e} gives you 2 strings. You can put any separator you want between
'bd' and 'be' when printing them out. If IFS='x', then should the
answer be
a-{bdxbe}-c
?
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