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From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Subscripting without temporaries
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:13:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040414161313.GA658@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <040413185850.ZM21526@candle.brasslantern.com>

    Hi Bart :)

 * Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> dixit:
> > I tried the same using more or less what you suggests below, but I
> > didn't get far because I cannot do $array[EXP][Whatever] (well,
> > namely I was trying ${array[10]}[1,8], but zsh told me 'no matches
> > found').
> Heh.  You *can* do ${array[EXP][Whatever]},
> or you can do ${${array[EXP]}[Whatever]},
> but you can't do what you said you tried.

    S**t, how embarrasing... I didn't even try those two
combinations. Well, that way I don't need a temporary.

> Also there was a bug until recently where if EXP is a negative number,
> then the result of $array[EXP] is still an array rather than a string,
> so then the [Whatever] fails to slice the string.

    I'm planning to upgrade to Zsh 4.2.x as soon as the next version
is releases, so I hope I don't get bite by that bug in the interim.

    Thanks a LOT for your help :)

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

-- 
Linux Registered User 88736
http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/


      reply	other threads:[~2004-04-14 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-13 12:00 DervishD
2004-04-13 15:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-04-13 16:40   ` Lloyd Zusman
2004-04-13 17:11     ` Phil Pennock
2004-04-13 18:17       ` Lloyd Zusman
2004-04-13 17:17     ` DervishD
2004-04-13 17:18     ` Bart Schaefer
2004-04-13 19:00     ` Wayne Davison
2004-04-13 17:14   ` DervishD
2004-04-14  1:58     ` Bart Schaefer
2004-04-14 16:13       ` DervishD [this message]

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