Re: is expr's \? regex metachar working?

[Andreas Schwab]

Clark Morgan <address@hidden> writes:

|> But, and this is a big BUT, expr puts an implied '^' at the beginning of
|> every regexp.  Consequently, when matching a nontrivial pattern, you've got
|> no choice but to add .* at the beginning of the regexp if you want to find
|> a substring.

What wrong with this:

$ expr abcdef : '.*b' '|' abcdef : '.*'

Btw, \? is a GNU extension and is not portable anyway.

Andreas.

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