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From: "jdh" <dhenman@gmail.com>
To: <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: ksX-Mailer: MH-E 8.6; GNU Mailutils 3.2; GNU Emacs 24.5.1
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 17:00:37 +1700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170909170037.5276@sparky> (raw)



I wanted to use the array flage (i) to get an index into a charagcter array (a string), but am getting incorrect results.  Here is an example code snippet which shows the  oddity.

#
#  below define a table (string) with 4 characters.
chrtab="#()*"
for (( ndx=1;  ndx<=$#chrtab ; ndx++ ))
    do echo "Character is $chrtab[ndx], but retrieved index is $chrtab[(i)$chrtab[ndx]]"
    done

I expect the result to be 1, 2, 3, 4
                 but get  5, 5, 5, 1

Is this a a feature or a bug?



             reply	other threads:[~2017-09-10  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-09  0:00 jdh [this message]
2017-09-10  1:51 ` Phil Pennock
2017-09-10  5:08   ` Bart Schaefer

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