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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:04:47 -0800
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: field splitting behavior
From: Paul Lew - remove nospam when reply <paullew@nospam.cisco.com>
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Take a look at the following:

> var='foo:bar' 
> echo ${(@)${(s/:/)var}[1]}
foo

> var='foobar'
> echo ${(@)${(s/:/)var}[1]}
f

So why it did field splitting on each character when there is no
separator ':' found?  I would expect 'foobar' on the output.

Thanks in advance..