On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 12:10:02AM +0900, Koichi Murase wrote: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-06/threads.html#00039
Four years later, i=$(( ${i%%[!+-]*}10#${i#[-+]} )) is still
horrible. Well, to be fair, five years since the original suggestion
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2018-07/msg00033.html>.
No offense to Pierre; this really is the best we've got. It's just sad
that the best answer looks like *this*.
