Re: [ping] declare -c still undocumented.

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Le 13/11/2020 à 12:47, Chris Elvidge écrivait :
> But ${var^} still doesn't know that it should apply to the first alpha 
> character in a string. Similar for , and ~. If the first character of 
> the string is a punctuation character, e.g.(, it doesn't work (as I 
> would like it to <g>).

Well, you are diverging from the issue here. I suggest you create a 
distinct post to discuss your feature request.

To Chet,
The feature survived from Bash 4.0 to 5.0.
Are you still uncertain about the declare -c attribute's status?

Anyway, here is what I found in a conversation from 2009:

Available here: 
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2009-03/msg00152.html>

> Re: "declare -c" not documented
> From:   Chet Ramey
> Subject:        Re: "declare -c" not documented
> Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:37:06 -0400
> User-agent:     Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209)
>
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > The -c option for declare (new in bash 4.0) is not mentioned in either
> > the man page or the "help declare" text.
>
> Correct.  I'm not sure the capitalization feature will survive.  If it
> makes it into the next version, I will add the documentation.
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>
> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    address@hidden    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/


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