Re: Bug in Expr 2.0.12 - .* too greedy

[email protected] (Larry Jones) Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:31:59 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.sh-utils.bugs
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Derek Robert Price writes:
> 
> The expr, version 2.0.12, which happens to be distributed with RH Linux 
> 8.0 is broken.  .* is way too greedy.  Here's a test case:

FWIW, the oldest 2.0.x I can find is 2.0.13 and it seems to work
correctly, so I'm guessing the bug didn't last long.  RH just picked
an unfortunate version to distribute.

-Larry Jones

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