On 9/17/16 7:38 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>
>>> But please explain (character by character) why you create an output that
>>> is in
>>> conflict with the reference implementation (a patched ksh88).
>>
>> `Character by character'? Really?
>>
>> (And
Chet Ramey wrote:
> > But please explain (character by character) why you create an output that
> > is in
> > conflict with the reference implementation (a patched ksh88).
>
> `Character by character'? Really?
>
> (And obviously the so-called `reference implementation'
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > but the other shells regard them as special:
> > >
> > > $ foo=abcdef; echo "${foo#'ab'}"
> > > cdef
> > >
> > > So, is this also unspecified like double quotes? Or should it
> > > be specified that they are special, in which case, dash /
On 9/9/16 7:30 PM, shwares...@aol.com wrote:
> To me the contexts are, for "${foo-'a"b'"}" as a stream of characters:
> begin double quote stream part
> begin substitution
> parameter-name dash-op begin argument word
> begin single quote stream part
Stop here. There is no "single
On 2016-09-09 09:02:11 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 9/9/16 7:44 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2016-09-05 19:12:54 +, Mark Galeck wrote:
> >> The standard says in the section 2.2.3 on Double-Quotes and $ :
> >> "even number of unescaped double-quotes or single-quotes, if any,
> >> shall
On 9/9/16 7:44 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2016-09-05 19:12:54 +, Mark Galeck wrote:
>> The standard says in the section 2.2.3 on Double-Quotes and $ :
>> "even number of unescaped double-quotes or single-quotes, if any,
>> shall occur".
>
> Concerning this point, these even number of
shwares...@aol.com wrote:
||> The standard says in the section 2.2.3 on Double-Quotes and $ :
||> "even number of unescaped double-quotes or single-quotes, if any,
||> shall occur".
||
||Concerning this point, these even number of double-quotes and even
||number of single-quotes are