Re: possible bug

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bregola Cristiano on 5/15/2009 3:17 AM:
> On red hat enterprise linux 5.1 (with ksh) the expression below is case in 
> sensitive:
> 
> variable=myworld
> expr $variable : "[A-Z]*"
> result= 7
> 
> Is correct??

Yes, if your locale states that you are using case-insensitive collation.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

Actually, your collation order is probably something like AaBbCc...YyZz,
in which case 'z' is omitted by the above expression.

> 
> On aix or other unix the expression is case SENSITIVE!

Only if they chose a different locale, such as by 'export LC_ALL=C'.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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