From: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
To: <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Strange behavior with "for i in .."
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:41:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110923114159.6c7460ce@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E7C5F9D.2070308@gmail.com>
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:29:49 +0300
Volodya Khomchak <kolombo.inc@gmail.com> wrote:
> I faced with strange behavior with "for i in ..".
> So the problem is next:
> # for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh;do echo $i;done
> # zsh: bad math expression: operand expected at `/etc/profi...'
> But if I change "i" to "file" it would work:
> # for file in /etc/profile.d/*.sh;do echo $file;done
> # /etc/profile.d/1.sh
> # /etc/profile.d/2.sh
>
> zsh --version
> zsh 4.3.10 (x86_64)
>
> So what is going on here ?
Probably the first time i is referred to in the shell was in something like
for (( i = 0; i < stuff; i++ )); ...
or, in fact, any arithmetic involving "i". This has caused "i" to be
implicitly typed as an integer. This only happens if i doesn't exist at
that point.
There are various things you can do;
typeset i
before you use i the first time will ensure it's a scalar (i.e. string)
value even if you use it in arithmetic subsequently.
Or,
typeset +i i
before you use it for any other purpose than arithmetic.
Or, if the original use was in initialisation code and you don't want i
to be exposed by it, simply
unset i
after that would be good enough.
Or, of course, you can keep i for integers and use another variable for
strings, which is in effect what you tried.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-23 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-23 10:29 Volodya Khomchak
2011-09-23 10:41 ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-09-23 10:51 ` Volodya Khomchak
2011-09-23 10:41 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2011-09-23 10:43 ` Oliver Kiddle
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