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Re: Bug in case stmt with '('

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From: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Subject: Re: Bug in case stmt with '('
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:23:24 +0100 (BST)
Cc: segal@xxxxxxxxxx, schaefer@xxxxxxx, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199607221951.VAA07888@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Jul 22, 96 09:51:48 pm

>Unfortunately there is still an incompatibility in case:
>
>case foo in
>( f* | b* ) echo yes
>esac
>
>should print yes but in zsh it works as
>
>case foo in
>\ f*\ |\ b*\ ) echo yes;;
>esac

I was wondering whether that would be the case.  It's a serious problem.

>To fix this would be really difficult I think.

It could be easily fixed by modifying glob semantics such that unquoted
whitespace embedded in a pattern is ignored.  I doubt that any real
code relies on the current behaviour, which is in any case
undocumented.

-zefram

References:
- Re: Bug in case stmt with '('
  - From: Zoltan Hidvegi

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