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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: variable expansion inside string
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:23:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1564496596.5815.10.camel@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1564496130.5815.9.camel@samsung.com>

On Tue, 2019-07-30 at 15:15 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> The nearest I can think of is:
> 
> print -r -- "${(e):-$a}"

Or, actually, a straight

print -r -- "${(e)a}"

since you don't need to add any text to the variable substitution.

pws



  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-30 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20190730123021epcas1p21671587b575bd82a2512bcb1fa091563@epcas1p2.samsung.com>
2019-07-30 12:28 ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2019-07-30 13:18   ` Peter Stephenson
2019-07-30 14:02     ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2019-07-30 14:15       ` Peter Stephenson
2019-07-30 14:23         ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2019-07-30 14:55           ` Pier Paolo Grassi

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