From: Anthony Charles <antho.charles@gmail.com>
To: "Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@benizi.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Expand array into multiple elements per item?
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:36:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110913083641.GD4542@layslair.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1109130337270.10525@hp.internal>
Hi,
You can try this :
print -l -- "-id "$^somelist
anotherlist=( "-id "$^somelist )
But I can't give you any answer for question 2 :/
--
Anthony CHARLES
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:15:50AM -0400, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> Three questions:
>
> 1. How can I easily take:
>
> somelist=( 'a b' c 'd e' )
>
> and get back:
>
> anotherlist=( -id 'a b' -id c -id 'd e' )
>
> 2. ...relatedly, I'm confused by the following:
>
> $ somelist=( 'a b' c 'd e' )
> $ print -l - $somelist
> a b
> c
> d e
> (i) $ print -l - $^somelist(e:'reply=( -id $REPLY )':)
> zsh: no matches found: a b(e:reply=( -id $REPLY ):)
> (ii) $ print -l - $^somelist(Ne:'reply=( -id $REPLY )':)
> (...nothing printed...)
> $
>
> Why does neither (i) nor (ii) work?
>
> 3. I thought I recalled a relatively recent addition to parameter
> expansion flags for just this use-case. But I can't seem to find
> the flag in zsh-4.3.12 patchlevel 1.5346. Still interested in the
> answer to the rest, regardless.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-13 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-13 8:15 Benjamin R. Haskell
2011-09-13 8:36 ` Anthony Charles [this message]
2011-09-13 8:52 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2011-09-15 18:07 ` Oliver Kiddle
2011-09-13 8:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-09-13 10:19 ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-09-13 17:32 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2011-09-13 17:21 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
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