From: Louis-David Mitterrand <mito@aparima.com>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: strange arithmetic
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 15:30:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19971128153022.58317@retriever> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <347F26A5.BBB84546@sangacorp.com>; from Alain Caron on Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 03:16:37PM -0500
On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 03:16:37PM -0500, Alain Caron wrote:
> > % 90
> >
> > 90 ?? I asked for 900 and it stops at 90. On the other hand the
> > following:
> >
> > % i=0;while ! [[ $[++i] = 900 ]];do;echo $i;done
> > % 1
> > % 2
> > [...]
> > % 899
> >
> > Is this normal?
>
> This is, I presume, because ">" and "=" are doing a lexicographic
> comparison. For a numeric
> comparison, use "-gt" and "-eq" operators.
Thanks to you and zefram, I guess I've been exposed to Perl for a little
too long (the time I could put off learning shell scripting ;-).
And to think I thought I had discovered a bug in mighty zsh ..
--
Louis-David Mitterrand
http://www.aparima.com
mito@aparima.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-11-28 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-11-28 19:09 Louis-David Mitterrand
1997-11-28 19:37 ` Andrew Main
1997-11-28 20:16 ` Alain Caron
1997-11-28 20:30 ` Louis-David Mitterrand [this message]
1997-11-29 2:04 ` Dan Nelson
1997-11-29 14:40 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
1997-11-29 11:44 ` Christopher Croughton
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