Re: Bad "bad pattern" in ${foo//pat/repl} ?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

"S. Cowles" wrote:
> almost a year ago, Bart Schaefer added the following note to the email=20
> archives:
>
> schaefer<506> echo ${foo//#a*/yes}
> zsh: bad pattern: #a*

It's a simple typo, it just got ignored.

Index: Src/subst.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/subst.c,v
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -r1.34 subst.c
--- Src/subst.c	22 May 2003 10:11:15 -0000	1.34
+++ Src/subst.c	5 Jun 2003 09:43:25 -0000
@@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@
 	    if ((c = *s) == '/') {
 		/* doubled, so replace all occurrences */
 		flags |= SUB_GLOBAL;
-		s++;
+		c = *++s;
 	    }
 	    /* Check for anchored substitution */
 	    if (c == '%') {

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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