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Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of param
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions. |
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Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:44:14 -0500 |
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On 2/28/12 11:54 AM, John Kearney wrote:
> the match string and the replace string are exhibiting 2 different
> behaviors.
Yes. Quotes in the match string are handled like quotes in the %% and ##
pattern removal expansions: they quote special characters for the matcher
and are removed. The double quotes inhibit the quote removal in the
replacement. This can be changed, but it's not backwards compatible.
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., (continued)
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., John Kearney, 2012/02/28
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., Chet Ramey, 2012/02/29
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., John Kearney, 2012/02/29
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., Chet Ramey, 2012/02/29
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., Eric Blake, 2012/02/29
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., Eric Blake, 2012/02/28
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., John Kearney, 2012/02/28
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., Bob Proulx, 2012/02/28
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions.,
Chet Ramey <=
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., Chet Ramey, 2012/02/29
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., John Kearney, 2012/02/29
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., Andreas Schwab, 2012/02/29
- Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions., John Kearney, 2012/02/29