From: Andy Spiegl <zsh.Andy@spiegl.de>
To: ZSH User List <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: how to force scalar to be an array?
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:43:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040828074355.GA4953@spiegl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0408271416370.4189@toltec.zanshin.com>
> So your only safe bet is to actually assign the scalar to an array, and
> then use subscripting on the array.
But then how would I be able to split the words if there are more than one?
Hm, I think I must be doing something wrong here. Shouldn't it be an
absolutely easy and common task to split a line into its words and then
pick the first one and the rest of them.
In Perl I'd do for example: (just to illustrate what I want to do)
$result=`some_proggie`
@words = split (/\s/, $result);
or maybe:
$result =~ /(\S+)(.*)/;
$first_word=$1;
$rest_words=$2;
--
o _ _ _
------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o)
----- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ /\\
---- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ _\_v
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping.
Men invade another country. --- Elayne Boosler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-28 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-27 15:49 Andy Spiegl
2004-08-27 21:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-08-27 21:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-08-28 7:43 ` Andy Spiegl [this message]
2004-08-28 18:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-08-30 16:39 ` Andy Spiegl
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