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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: string overwrites string when echoed
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 10:01:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <170909100149.ZM8451@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86o9qkqbes.fsf@zoho.com>

On Sep 9,  2:55pm, Emanuel Berg wrote:
}
}         reply=$(url $u)
}         echo "$u $reply" # works
}         echo "$reply $u" # doesn't work, $u overwrites $reply

The value of $reply has an embedded carriage-return.  You can see
this if you use:

    echo "$u ${(V)reply}"
    echo "${(V)reply} $u"


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-09 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-09 12:55 Emanuel Berg
2017-09-09 17:01 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2017-09-10 16:35   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-10 16:59     ` Peter Stephenson
2017-09-10 18:23       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-10 18:57         ` Peter Stephenson
2017-09-10 19:01           ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-10 21:50     ` Bart Schaefer
2017-09-10 22:11       ` Emanuel Berg

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