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From: edotto@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Otto)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Would somebody please explain?
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.031754.13519@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 03:17:54 GMT
References: <1991Apr21.001702.5661@umbc3.umbc.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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rouben@math16.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:

>The command:
>    expr "Match" : "Ma"
>returns 2, as it should, since the first two characters of "Match" and "Ma"
>coincide.  Now, would somebody please explain why the command:
>    expr "match" : "ma"
>complains of a "syntax error"?

Weird...It wouldn't work with ANY lower case characters EXCEPT with a capital
letter in the front of the strings...

I wanna know, too!


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