Re: Pattern matching bug

Matthew D. Fuller wrote

> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 02:17:45PM +0100 I heard the voice of
> Frank Steiner, and lo! it spake thus:
>> it seems, that strings used in any kind of lists are matched as
>> substrings.
> 
> Actually, they're regular expressions.  They always[-ish] sorta were,
> except not.
> 
> As of 4.0.0, they're just passed to the libc regexec() implementation.

Ok, that definitely is cool. Just realized that you can indeed use
sth. like "^[[:digit:]]ab". Definitely a great improvement! Maybe
that part in the man page should be altered so that you know that
you can use real regular expressions now :-)


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