Yikes is right! You're right, though. It certainly doesn't work like this on my Linux
boxes. It's odd, and makes me fear for portability.
But thanks for checking and finding out that it's not TOTALLY broken.
I'm horrified. /bin/bash 3.2.17 that came with a brand new iMac
does not recognize subexpressions in regular expressions.
This is recognized.
[[ happyFeet =~ 'happyFeet' ]] && echo recognized
This is NOT. Which makes it impossible to use the array BASH_REMATCH.
[[ happyFeet =~...
