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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:41:56 -0700
From: Steve Talley <stephen.talley@sun.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Anonymous array indexing
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Hello,

Is there a compact version of the following:

    fred=(one two three)
    export FRED=$fred[2]
    unset fred

I am looking for something like

    export FRED=(one two three)[2]

so that I can avoid having to use the temporary variable fred.
The above doesn't work.  Is there something equivalently short I
can use?  I'm running zsh 3.1.9.

Thanks,

Steve