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Re: Why bash failed to match this pattern?
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Pan ruochen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> My current version of bash on cygwin failed to match this pattern:
> *******************************
> target=ar
> if [[ "$target" =~ '^a' ]]; then
> Â Âecho Matched
> else
> Â Âecho Unmatched
> fi
Not a Cygwin question.; that fails in any bash. The quotes suppress
the special meaning of ^ and make it try to match literally. Lose
them:
if [[ "$target" =~ ^a ]]; then
...
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
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