matching flags (was: Re: Should we backup this change? RE: Modifier substitutions.)

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:

> You should now be able to do ${foo/(#s)$bar(#e)/...}.

Before I forget it... from the code in pattern.c it doesn't look too
hard to support flags for the other special `gaps between characters'
supported by some regexp systems (beginning/end of line/word). Would
it be interesting enough to have them, too? Might be useful with
parsing command outputs as in ${$(...)...} sometimes. (The definition
of `word' might be a problem, of course...)

Bye
 Sven


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