Am 17.05.25 um 15:09 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > 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? I didn't consider such a case. The cited paragraph could be interpreted to say that we want the words "sample", ".", "3", and "gp". But the pattern that we have in round v7 by a lucky strike actually gives "sample", ".", and "3gp" (I think), which is much better. -- Hannes
