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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane@chazelas.org>
To: zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Can I test if a parameter expansion has worked
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:49:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220920124901.aucgw4gyvxiz72f2@chazelas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f93d2561-a8d8-c952-2aeb-8bcf43eef1cb@rayninfo.co.uk>

2022-09-15 08:34:34 +0100, zzapper:
[...]
> f=stuff.jpg;
> 
> print ${f/%(#m).[pjg][npi]e#[gf]/_s$MATCH}
> 
> stuff_s.jpg  # good this is what i want
> 
> # now pass 'bad' input
> 
> f=stuff.txt;
> 
> print ${f/%(#m).[pjg][npi]e#[gf]/_s$MATCH}
> stuff.txt  #  expansion has obviously left the input unchanged but can I
> test for that???
[...]

You could always do:

unset flag
print -r -- ${f/%(#m).[pjg][npi]e#[gf]/_s$MATCH${flag=}}
if (( $+flag )) echo it did substitute

Note that "print $var" without the -- is a command injection
vulnerability and without -r generally not what you want.

-- 
Stephane


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-20 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-14 10:03 zzapper
2022-09-14 18:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-09-15  0:08 ` Alex Satrapa
2022-09-15  7:34 ` zzapper
2022-09-15  8:24   ` Peter Stephenson
2022-09-15  8:38     ` zzapper
2022-09-15 16:48   ` Bart Schaefer
2022-09-20  7:14     ` david rayner
2022-09-16  0:41   ` Alex Satrapa
2022-09-20 12:49   ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2022-09-20 13:25   ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-09-20 13:31     ` Stephane Chazelas

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