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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Comments: In reply to Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br>
        "Re: how to search for a substring in a parameter?" (Jan 13,  7:48pm)
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On Jan 13,  7:48pm, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
}
} % if [[ $bar == <1-$max> ]] {print in } else {print out}
} zsh: parse error: condition expected: $bar
} 
} Is it illegal to have parameters inside <-> ...?

Yes.  Do it this way:

range='<1-8>'

if [[ $bar == ${~range} ]] {print in} else {print out}