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Subject: Bash 5 bug in Cygwin only: empty pattern inside a regular expression
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From: LLoyd via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Hello.

I'll try to keep this short:
In Cygwin only, using bash 5.2.21-1 or 5.2.15-3 (the only 5.* versions
available), "empty" in a regular expression is not properly matched
and breaks the regular expression.
It's not a quoting issue, I also tested with:
reg='foo|'; [[ foo =~ $regex ]]

GNU bash, version 5.2.15(3)-release (x86_64-pc-cygwin)
GNU bash, version 5.2.21(1)-release (x86_64-pc-cygwin)
[[ foo =~ foo| ]] (is false, should be true)
[[ foo =~ foo|a ]] (is true)
[[ '' =~ foo| ]] (is false, should be true)

GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
GNU bash, version 5.2.21(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
[[ foo =~ foo| ]] (is true)
[[ foo =~ foo|a ]] (is true)
[[ '' =~ foo| ]] (is true)

Thank you,
LLoyd

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