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From: Andrew Main <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Bernd Eggink)
Cc: zefram@tao.co.uk, adam.spiers@new.ox.ac.uk, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Exporting arrays
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:15:00 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199801121515.PAA11821@taos.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34BA1F3D.18EE4BAB@rrz.uni-hamburg.de> from "Bernd Eggink" at Jan 12, 98 02:48:45 pm

Bernd Eggink wrote:
>   a=(${(s(:))aex})
>
>Unfortunately this doesn't work if an array element is empty! Example:

Both behaviours are useful.  What would really be nice would be to
make the delimiter a glob pattern, so that both behaviours (and more)
are available.  That would make the default behave the way you want it,
which is probably better overall, because if one really wanted the other
form of splitting then this would become immediately obvious.

-zefram


  reply	other threads:[~1998-01-12 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-01-11 18:16 Adam Spiers
1998-01-12  3:51 ` Geoff Wing
1998-01-12  9:01 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-01-12 10:45 ` Andrew Main
1998-01-12 13:48   ` Bernd Eggink
1998-01-12 15:15     ` Andrew Main [this message]
1998-01-12 21:24       ` Bernd Eggink
1998-01-12 22:12       ` Adam Spiers
1998-01-12 23:15         ` Mirar
1998-01-13  1:39           ` Adam Spiers
1998-01-13 14:12             ` Mirar

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