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Re: compset/prefix and backreferences

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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'ZSH Workers Mailing List'" <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: compset/prefix and backreferences
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:54:37 +0000
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I was clearing out my backlog of mail from over the holidays and came
across this one left from longer ago:

On Nov 15,  2:44pm, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
} Subject: compset/prefix and backreferences
}
} Do these commands/conditions use normal mechanisms that activate
} backreferences to compare strings?

It appears that compset and the corresponding special conditionals do use
the standard pattern match code, so they will activate backreferences if 
extendedglob is set and (#b) is used, etc.

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