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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: expr command
To: nagashim@nirim.go.jp (Takashi Nagashima)
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 00:12:06 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199511160455.NAA01252@usagi.nirim.go.jp> from "Takashi Nagashima" at Nov 16, 95 01:55:31 pm
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As Takashi Nagashima wrote:
> 
> 
> FreeBSD 2.1.0-950928-SNAP
> 
> 	expr 0000 : '\(....\)'
> 	result>		<-- No print

> SunOS 4.1.3, SunOS 5.3, DEC OSF/1 V2.0, BSDI BSD/OS 2.0.1
> 
> 	expr 0000 : '\(....\)'
> 	result>	0000

> Is this a bug ?

Definately, yes.

My fault.  I fixed the bogus numerical comparisions (``expr 0000 \<
1'' wasn't `true'), but apparently broke the colon operator by this.

Thank'ya for reporting it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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