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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:57:28 +0200
From: Julius Plenz <julius@plenz.com>
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Subject: Re: Assign to parameter in parameter -- opposite of ${(P)name}?
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Hi, Benjamin!

* Benjamin R. Haskell <zsh@benizi.com> [2010-07-10 01:35]:
> but how do you *assign* to a parameter whose name is in a parameter?

> name=foo
> : ${${(P)name}::=something}
> echo $foo
> # should echo 'something'

How about:

    zsh> name=foo
    zsh> typeset $name=something
    zsh> echo $foo
    something

Julius