Would somebody please explain?

[Ed Otto]

rouben at math16.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:

>The command:
>    expr "Match" : "Ma"
>returns 2, as it should, since the first two characters of "Match" and "Ma"
>coincide.  Now, would somebody please explain why the command:
>    expr "match" : "ma"
>complains of a "syntax error"?

Weird...It wouldn't work with ANY lower case characters EXCEPT with a capital
letter in the front of the strings...

I wanna know, too!


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