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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
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To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Expand array into multiple elements per item?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:07:09 +0200
Message-ID: <13098.1316110029@thecus.kiddle.eu>

On 13 Sep, "Benjamin R. Haskell" wrote:
> > You can try this :
> > print -l -- "-id "$^somelist
> 
> anotherlist should end up as I specified before:
> 
>      $ anotherlist=( -id 'a b' -id c -id 'd e' )
> 
> I.e. separate elements, but not just word-splitting everything:

If you join the list up and then re-split it, it might work:
  print -l -- ${(0)${(pj:\0:):--id$'\0'$a}}

Oliver