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From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Truncate strings in array
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 12:22:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160522102218.GF3514@isis.sigpipe.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKc7PVCB8XmiiLX52VwBT+_JBS9JTi8cKuviex4mvqsyAjSZ4A@mail.gmail.com>

# sgniazdowski@gmail.com / 2016-05-22 09:20:10 +0200:
> having array of strings, is it possible to nicely truncate the strings
> to given length? Could iterate the array and do truncation, but maybe
> there's a one liner?

print -l ${strings/(#m)*/$MATCH[1,30]}

-- 
roman


  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-22 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-22  7:20 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-05-22 10:22 ` Roman Neuhauser [this message]
2016-05-22 11:14   ` Sebastian Gniazdowski

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