Fix issue 5576 (regex matching bug in expr)#5577
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Issue 5576 reported a bug in expr, found by the fuzzer. The problem turns out to be with the regex match operator `:`, which is defined in POSIX and the GNU manual to match the pattern only when it occurs at the beginning of the string, i.e., the regex has an implicit `^` prepended to it. We hadn't been doing that.
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Fixes #5576
Issue 5576 reported a bug in expr, found by the fuzzer. The problem
turns out to be with the regex match operator
:, which is defined inPOSIX and the GNU manual to match the pattern only when it occurs at
the beginning of the string, i.e., the regex has an implicit
^prepended to it. We hadn't been doing that.
References:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/expr.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/String-expressions.html