Re: how to force scalar to be an array?

[Andy Spiegl <zsh.Andy@spiegl.de>]

Hi Bart,

> What I meant was:
> 
> 	words=( $=result )
> 	print $words[1]
Ah!  Thanks so much once again for your help.

> You can even do it in one expression:
> 
> 	print ${${(A)=words::=$result}[1]}
Cool.  But hard to read.

> You'd also think that the (@) flag would fix that, but it only
> *preserves* array-ness in the transition from inner to outer nested
> expansions, it doesn't *create* array-ness from a scalar.
Yep, I did think that.  So maybe your suggestion below would be worth
discussion on zsh-workers. :-)

> The latter might be something we could consider changing without much risk
> of breaking anything.

> You can do that latter one in zsh, too, if you have extendedglob set:
> 
> 	: ${result//(#b)([^[:space:]]#)(*)/}
> 	print -l $match[1] $match[2]
Uffda, gotta go back and read more of the zsh manual.

Thanks again, I really appreciate your help!
 Andy.

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