From 8421c9e59dfc9a3abc71a060f8577c342f81a007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jun T Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 14:51:43 +0900 Subject: 35086: reapply a hunk from 35067 for expn.yo the hunk has been mistakenly reverted by 35075 --- Doc/Zsh/expn.yo | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'Doc') diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo b/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo index 1089ddf40..6bb0b4ada 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo @@ -1014,6 +1014,25 @@ form of single quoting is used that only quotes the string if needed to protect special characters. Typically this form gives the most readable output. ) +item(tt(b))( +Quote with backslashes only characters that are special to pattern +matching. This is useful when the contents of the variable are to be +tested using tt(GLOB_SUBST), including the tt(${~)var(...)tt(}) switch. + +Quoting using one of the tt(q) family of flags does not work +for this purpose since quotes are not stripped from non-pattern +characters by tt(GLOB_SUBST). In other words, + +example(foo='a\ b' +[[ 'a b' = ${~foo} ]]) + +fails, whereas + +example(foo='a\*b' +[[ 'a*b' = ${~foo} ]]) + +succeeds. The tt(b) flag ensures the correct quoting. +) item(tt(Q))( Remove one level of quotes from the resulting words. ) -- cgit 1.4.1