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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane@chazelas.org>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: syntactic trivia
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 15:30:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210102153039.4k35q567uteqeh2u@chazelas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <565cd2e7-c999-5735-4089-a56870713432@eastlink.ca>

2021-01-02 06:57:32 -0800, Ray Andrews:
>         [ "$case" = 'insensitive' ] && dirs=( (#i)$1*(/N) ) \
>                                     || dirs=(     $1*(/N) )
> 
> Since '(#i)' is a modifier of the globing would not this be more intuitive?:
> 
>     dirs=( $1*(/N#i) )
> 
> Just to understand it, I'm wondering why case filtering would be
> syntactically different from the other filters.
[...]

(#i) can be applied to part of a pattern:

[[ $x = ((#i)insenstive)-sensitive ]]

-- 
Stephane


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-02 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-02 14:57 Ray Andrews
2021-01-02 15:30 ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2021-01-02 17:49   ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-02 18:05     ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-02 18:23       ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-02 18:32         ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-02 15:32 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-01-02 18:04   ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-02 19:13     ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-02 19:40       ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-04  5:34       ` Daniel Shahaf

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