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KSH Pattern from variable does not work

Could somebody explain me why pattern in Korn shell (assigned to variable) works this way: u@h:w$ pattern='file_[0-9][0-9]' u@h:w$ ls $pattern file_01 file_02 file_03 But it doesn't work for ...
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Match regex in ksh

I am looking to do something like this in KSH: if (( $var = (foo|bar)[0-9]*$ )); then print "variable matched regex" fi Is it possible at all? For the record I'm using Ksh Version M-11/16/88i on ...
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