I don't think the second % is needed as you want to remove one single occurrence only.
Hi RudiC,
You are correct. The commands:
produce exactly the same results in this case.
Hi ejianu,
Even though both forms produce the same results in this case, I personally prefer to use the % version (like RudiC suggestion in post #10) instead of the %% version you used in post #11 when there is only one possible match.
The difference between the two cases is apparent when the given pattern can match more than once. For example, the following commands:
produce the output:
because %% removes the longest match for .* from the end of $x and % removes the shortest match for .* from the end of $x. (Note that the patterns used in ${var%%pattern} and ${var%pattern} are filename matching patterns; not basic regular expressions and not extended regular expressions.)
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