bash regex with quotes?

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It was changed between 3.1 and 3.2. Guess the advanced guide needs an update.

This is a terse description of the new
features added to bash-3.2 since the
release of bash-3.1. As always, the
manual page (doc/bash.1) is the place
to look for complete descriptions.

  1. New Features in Bash

snip

f. Quoting the string argument to the
[[ command’s =~ operator now forces
string matching, as with the other pattern-matching operators.

Sadly this’ll break existing quote using scripts unless you had the insight to store patterns in variables and use them instead of the regexes directly. Example below.

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ number=2
$ if [[ $number =~ "[0-9]" ]]; then echo match; fi
$ if [[ $number =~ [0-9] ]]; then echo match; fi
match
$ re="[0-9]"
$ if [[ $number =~ $re ]]; then echo MATCH; fi
MATCH

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.00.0(1)-release (i586-suse-linux)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ number=2
$ if [[ $number =~ "[0-9]" ]]; then echo match; fi
match
$ if [[ "$number" =~ [0-9] ]]; then echo match; fi
match

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