colon and pattern matching

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

>On Solaris 2.6, PH 813.D1 the following is true.
>matchpattern("ABC:DEF","^^^!:^^^")
>
>Note the use of the exclamation mark.
>
>Darren

Ditto for 8.19. Which implies that PH is treating it as a metacharacter. So
what does it mean by itself?


>"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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