colon and pattern matching

[Darren Reely]

On Solaris 2.6, PH 813.D1 the following is true.
matchpattern("ABC:DEF","^^^!:^^^")

Note the use of the exclamation mark.

Darren


"Pickering, John (NORBORD)" wrote:
> 
> What does the colon mean in pattern matching?
> 
> In my manual it is not in the list of non-alpha and non-numeric special
> characters which match themselves, it is not in the list of defined
> metacharacters and it is not in the list of metacharacters reserved for
> future expansion.
> 
> And matchpattern("ABC:DEF","^^^:^^^") is false :-(
> 
> John Pickering
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