Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> +y=<RED>3.14<RESET><GREEN>2.71<RESET> >> +z=<RED>.5<RESET><GREEN>.75<RESET> > > When do decimal numbers occur in shell scripts? Wouldn't it be more > often the case that a fullstop is part of a regular expression or a file > name or version number that happens to be surrounded by numbers? In that > case, we would prefer to capture the digit sequences as separate words. Sorry but I am confused. Do you want a filename "sample.3gp" treated as having separate parts, "sample", ".3", and "gp", instead of a single word?
