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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: regular expressions
Message-ID: <3096@solo2.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 30 Aug 89 15:35:18 GMT
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bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox) writes:
\...	   case $domain in
\	   \(.*\)\.\(.*\)\.edu)
\		   department=\1
\		   university=\2
\	   *)
\		   # ...
\	   esac
\...
\Well, not without changing the semantics of the "case" command, and
\writing a regular expression parser into the shell.
\
\The pattern matcher is a globber, not a RE parser.  Sorry.

Of course; it was never my intention to use the (normal) `case' command for
my idea.  But perhaps a syntax extension would be worthwhile?

	ecase ... in
	...
	esace
[sic]
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