From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: create variable with calculated number of spaces.
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 07:56:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <255c5dbd-c8d3-4cf7-bcec-6a3c1cfc8e71@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMpQ1UYZC0T6_ago_UgTLE99TWbgG9X=YRybz839iD-8-w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2024-05-06 22:52, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> You don't need to "cobble together complicated variables" here. Just
> printf straight away to stdout.
I know, I mean in other situations where the variable really is
complicated. I've seen 'printf -v' offered previously to do some
pretty fancy stuff.
> % n=10
> % y=${(r:n:: :)} # n spaces
> % x='hello'
> % z=${(r:n:: :)x} # right-justified x
Jim Murphy offered:
spacer=${(l:diff:::: :)}
... very much in the same school of thought. Feels more 'direct', if
that means anything. Mark suggests I shouldn't worry so much about
'economy' -- I tend to not want to use an elephant's worth of
functionality ( printf ) where a mouses worth will do. But maybe that's
not a valid way to think cuz I can't really anticipate how the shell
will actually get the work done.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-07 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-06 22:03 Ray Andrews
2024-05-06 22:33 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-05-06 22:35 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-05-06 22:38 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-05-06 23:02 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-06 23:28 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-05-06 23:41 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-06 23:57 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-07 5:14 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-07 5:52 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-05-07 14:56 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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