Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value

[Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/18/2022 3:22 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 2022-10-18 12:32, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> > is equivalent to this:
> >
> >      [ "${${1}##*[*?]*}" ] && echo "no wildcards"
> >      printenv "$1" || echo wildcards present
> >
> > which is not at all what you want.
>
> Quite right, I expressed it poorly.  Anyway the issue is closed, I 
> understand it.  I wonder how old I'll have to be before I stop 
> thinking in C.


Try perl.  Then you'll really be confused as to the proper syntax. :)

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