regexps vs regexps

regexps vs regexps

Posted Aug 5, 2004 14:26 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: regexps vs regexps by pkolloch
Parent article: Bash 3.0 released

Regular expressions are first of all a theoretical concept

Yes, I tried to account for that without getting into the theoretical details that I don't remember.

If we start nit picking, we should not mistake one of those syntaxes as the one and only real regular expression syntax.

Except that globs do not have the power required by a true (theoretical) regular expression. They can't express everything that a regular expression can.

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