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From: "Atte Peltomäki" <atte.peltomaki@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:41:08 +0200
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Subject: Local arrays
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Hi,

Can someone explain the following behaviour in declaring local arrays?

% F () { local -a foo=(one two three); echo $foo ; }
% F
F: unknown file attribute

% F () { local foo=(one two); echo $foo ; }
% F
F: missing end of string

% F () { local foo=(moi hei); echo $foo ; }
% F
F: number expected

% F () { local -a foo; foo=(one two three); echo $foo ; }
% F
one two three

% echo $ZSH_VERSION
4.3.17

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Atte Peltomäki
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