Re: Case matching error

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Thanks Jan for the report.

I confirm that this bug applies to the cvs version of grep. The example
reported, however, behaves differently on my environment.

On "Linux 2.6.14.6-grsec #3 SMP Mon Jan 16 13:46:37 AST 2006 x86_64
GNU/Linux", using CVS grep as of March 5, 2006, I observe the following

grep '[a-z]' matches letters 'B' to 'Z' (not 'A') and letters 'a' to 'z'.
grep '[A-Z]' matches letters 'a' to 'y' (not 'z') and letters 'A' to 'Z'.

Easy tests using colours:

echo '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' | grep 
--color '[a-z]'

and

echo '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' | grep 
--color '[A-Z]'

Cheers,

TAA

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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Jan Wielemaker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I came accross a bug in grep as distributed with SuSE 10.0:
>
> % grep --version
> grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1
>
> Please try:
>
> % grep '[A-Z]'
> a
> ab
> ab    # echoed: match!?
>
> There are quite some variations possible.  Somehow the [A-Z] pattern appears
> to match on two different lowercase letters.
>
>       Regards --- Jan
>
> P.s.  SuSE 10.0 is bundled with gcc version 4.0.2.  Guess that is the
>       compiler they used to build the binaries.  I'm running the x86
>       version on an AMD Athlon system.
>
>
>