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From: Dmitri Vereshchagin <dmitri.vereshchagin@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: question about parameter expansion
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:57:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150926185710.GA3981@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3R6xhpwZ2fArTfsKqKRTVcJH7oO335nT-93ko9cnMUJxg@mail.gmail.com>

* Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> [2015-09-26 21:34]:
> Here's another variant, which may or may not be considered more
> concise (it happens to be the exact same number of characters, but
> uses fewer things, and probably doesn't work under ksh_arrays, but
> then, what does, commas abounds),
> 
> bar=${${:-baz}[1,$+foo-1]}

Nice.  Seems like there is another alternative

bar=${${foo-baz}#$foo}

-- 
Dmitri Vereshchagin


  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-26 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-26 10:18 Dmitri Vereshchagin
2015-09-26 13:37 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-09-26 17:41   ` ZyX
2015-09-26 17:57     ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-09-26 18:08   ` Dmitri Vereshchagin
2015-09-26 18:33     ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-09-26 18:57       ` Dmitri Vereshchagin [this message]
2015-09-26 21:11         ` Ray Andrews
2015-09-26 21:34           ` Bart Schaefer
2015-09-26 22:02             ` Ray Andrews
2015-09-27 16:58               ` Bart Schaefer
2015-09-27 18:29                 ` Ray Andrews
2015-09-27 18:43                   ` ZyX
2015-10-02 14:10                 ` Simon Ruderich
2015-10-02 16:35                   ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-02 19:07                     ` Simon Ruderich
2015-10-02 19:50                       ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-02 20:03                         ` latest manual Ray Andrews
2015-10-02 20:23                           ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-02 20:53                             ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-02 21:55                               ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-03 18:49                                 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-03 10:01                               ` Simon Ruderich
2015-10-02 20:58                             ` Andrew Janke

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