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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: (AA) example
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:27:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121025172732.56a44ed2@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50895F66.9050407@internecto.net>

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:48:54 +0200
Mark van Dijk <lists+zsh@internecto.net> wrote:
> I'd like to ask for an example of how the A and AA parameter expansion
> flags work. The description in the manual is too complicated for me to
> grasp.

I must say I've always found these flags a complicated distraction which
never quite do what I want (which is why I haven't given an example).

> I am not sure whether these flags can add a value to an (associative)
> array which already exists?

I'd suggest sticking with the obvious ways:

assoc+=(key value)
assoc[key]=value

pws


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-25 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-25 15:48 Mark van Dijk
2012-10-25 16:27 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2012-10-25 23:15   ` volume label in prompt? Ray Andrews
2012-10-26  0:57     ` TJ Luoma
2012-10-26  2:42       ` Ray Andrews
2012-10-26  3:15       ` Alex Satrapa
2012-10-26 13:44     ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2012-10-26 15:44       ` Ray Andrews
2012-10-26  6:06 ` (AA) example Bart Schaefer

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