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Re: tilde syntax

On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 2:50 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Ah, so this behavior is special.  Is there some way to watch the parsing unfold?

There really isn't any "parsing" per se -- internally, an "active"
pattern character is represented differently than its literal
counterpart.  All that $~x (or glob_subst) does is make the pattern
characters in $x be active instead of literal.  The rest is just
ordinary globbing (or pattern matching, in [[ ... ]] etc.).
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