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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: local but persistent integer?
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 08:19:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22a10f61-5f82-9797-4bc9-9082f9371dc7@eastlink.ca> (raw)

This works in my function:

     if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
         integer -x start="$(( $(date +%s%N)/1000000 ))"
         return
     fi

     if [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
         start=0
         return
     fi

     [[ $start == '0' ]] && echo "Timer not properly started" && return
     ... code

... I need 'start' to persist between function calls which it does but 
it would be nice if it could be local as well since it has no use 
outside this function.  Also, it would be more hygienic to kill the 
variable entirely in case of 'stop' rather than set it to zero.  I tried 
'unset' but it didn't seem to work.  This will be doable of course.  
Very minor issues but I'd like to be able to do it properly.





             reply	other threads:[~2022-09-16 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-16 15:19 Ray Andrews [this message]
2022-09-16 17:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-09-16 19:43   ` Ray Andrews
2022-09-16 21:41     ` Bart Schaefer
2022-09-16 21:50       ` Ray Andrews
2022-09-17  1:51       ` Ray Andrews

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