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Subject: Re: bin/12137: something wrong with shell -- functions with arithm expressions
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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
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The ``-'' character is also causing troubles. The script:
length () {
        echo $((0+${#1}))
}

length "abc (def [xyz])"
length "abc (def (xyz))"
length "abc (def -xyz-)"

Produces:
16
15
17

Again, bash and ksh print out 15 for all of the strings...

	-mi


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