>Submitter-Id:	net
>Originator:	David Carrel
>Organization:
Just a regular guy!
>Confidential:	no
>Synopsis:	colon (`:') compares don't work in /bin/expr
>Severity:	non-critical
>Priority:	medium
>Category:	bin
>Class:		sw-bug
>Release:	1.0
>Environment:
	
NetBSD 1.0 (supped 10 July 1994)
hp300

>Description:
	expr is supposed to use the colon (`:') to indicate that a regular
expression is to be performed and print the number of matching characters.
The return status should indicate whether any match was found.  But expr
ALWAYS prints `0' and returns status 1.
>How-To-Repeat:
	EASY:
	run "expr foo : foo"
	This should print 3 and return 0, but it prints 0 and returns 1
	or run "expr foo : f"
	This should print 1 and return 0, but it prints 0 and returns 1
	or run "expr foo : xxx"
	This should print 0 and return 1, and it prints 0 and returns 1
>Fix:
	Sorry, I don't have one.  ;-(

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