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From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Vincent Bernat" <bernat@luffy.cx>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: (z) expansion flag do not always return an array
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:50:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1be1289c-c3a1-4730-baab-5625af464cb1@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k0grdlls.fsf@luffy.cx>

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021, at 10:31 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> The (z) expansion flag is documented to return an array

Is it?  The 5.8 man page does not mention "array" even once.

    z   Split the result of the expansion into words using shell
        parsing to find the words, i.e. taking into account any
        quoting in the value.  Comments are not treated specially but
        as ordinary strings, similar to interactive shells with the
        INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS option unset (however, see the Z flag
        below for related options)

        Note that this is done very late, even later than the `(s)'
        flag.  So to access single words in the result use nested
        expansions as in `${${(z)foo}[2]}'.  Likewise, to remove the
        quotes in the resulting words use `${(Q)${(z)foo}}'.

-- 
vq


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-29 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-29 15:31 Vincent Bernat
2021-11-29 16:34 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-11-29 17:44   ` Vincent Bernat
2021-11-29 16:50 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2021-11-29 17:03   ` Peter Stephenson
2021-11-29 17:43   ` Vincent Bernat
2021-11-29 17:45   ` Bart Schaefer
2021-11-29 19:43 ` Bart Schaefer

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