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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Is quoting of the assigned value needed?
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 10:45:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1574419508.4702.10.camel@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKc7PVAUqWfNvvJi+k7A9qW7g9w3GqaUTXTML0yWo9fHGUuwbA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2019-11-22 at 03:03 +0100, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> Hello,
> SH_WORD_SPLIT doesn't seem to cause any effects in this context:
> 
> setopt SH_WORD_SPLIT
> var1="a   b"
> var2=$var1
> print "$var2"
> 
> Output: a   b

Correct, there's no splitting there: you've got a quoted assignment, a
single word assignment, and quoted output.

What you should be doing depends on what you're trying to do, which you
don't say.  Do you want var2 to be an array of split parts of $var1?  In
that case, do an array assignment.

var2=($var1)

pws


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-22 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20191122020437eucas1p128174332018d20a266f55007fcf271ba@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2019-11-22  2:03 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2019-11-22 10:45   ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2019-11-22 14:07     ` Perry Smith
2019-11-22 14:31       ` Peter Stephenson
2019-11-22 14:59         ` Perry Smith
2019-11-22 15:01     ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2019-11-22 15:06       ` Peter Stephenson
2019-11-22 16:26         ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2019-11-23 18:01           ` Sebastian Gniazdowski

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