Re: alternation option end of string

Ray Andrews <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel
Message-ID <61062ae9-d338-4036-8a4d-5c35c8c84b6d__14865.9070416883$1777682258$gmane$org@eastlink.ca>

On 2026-05-01 16:56, Ray Andrews wrote:
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>
> On 2026-05-01 15:39, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> $
>>
>> e.g. 'a(b|$)' will match an a that is either followed by a b or at 
>> the end of the strings
>>
>>
I must be doing something wrong:

% string='cats'

% out="${(M)string##cat(s|$)}"; echo $out
cats

% string='cat'

% out=${(M)string##cat(s|$)}; echo $out

[nothing]
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