Re: svn commit: r12027 - trunk

Branko ÄŒibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:

> Julian Foad wrote:
>
>> Branko ÄŒibej wrote:
>>
>>> brane@mithril:~$ expr '0.9.5' : '0\.9\.[5-9]\|0\.9\.[1-9][0-9]'
>>> 0
>>
>> Thanks. I don't know why that doesn't work as I expect it to and as
>> it works on most systems, but I've reverted that part of the change
>> in r12044.
>
> I tried several variants, but not one with '\|' worked. I don't know
> why, either.

It's an extended RE and the FreeBSD manpage expr(1) states that a
basic RE is to be used, thus '|' is a literal not an operator.

-- 
Philip Martin
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