Matthew D. Fuller wrote > On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 02:17:45PM +0100 I heard the voice of > Frank Steiner, and lo! it spake thus: >> it seems, that strings used in any kind of lists are matched as >> substrings. > > Actually, they're regular expressions. They always[-ish] sorta were, > except not. > > As of 4.0.0, they're just passed to the libc regexec() implementation.
Ok, that definitely is cool. Just realized that you can indeed use sth. like "^[[:digit:]]ab". Definitely a great improvement! Maybe that part in the man page should be altered so that you know that you can use real regular expressions now :-) -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *
