* for-command problem @ 1997-11-03 15:14 Andres Gomez Navarro 1997-11-03 15:56 ` Bruce Stephens 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Andres Gomez Navarro @ 1997-11-03 15:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 'zsh-users@math.gatech.edu' ---------- Hello: I have a ZSHELL problem: Why this elementary script does not work? for ((let n=1; $n < 12 ; let n=$n+1)) do echo $n done neither this: for ((let n=1; $n < 12 ; let n=$n+1)) echo -$n Could you help me. Thanks, Andres Gomez ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: for-command problem 1997-11-03 15:14 for-command problem Andres Gomez Navarro @ 1997-11-03 15:56 ` Bruce Stephens 1997-11-03 22:21 ` Bernd Eggink 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Bruce Stephens @ 1997-11-03 15:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: zsh-users agn@uitesa.es said: > for ((let n=1; $n < 12 ; let n=$n+1)) > do > echo $n > done This works: for ((n=1; $n<12; n=$n+1)) do echo $n done ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: for-command problem 1997-11-03 15:56 ` Bruce Stephens @ 1997-11-03 22:21 ` Bernd Eggink 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Bernd Eggink @ 1997-11-03 22:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Bruce Stephens; +Cc: zsh-users Bruce Stephens wrote: > > agn@uitesa.es said: > > for ((let n=1; $n < 12 ; let n=$n+1)) > > do > > echo $n > > done > > This works: > > for ((n=1; $n<12; n=$n+1)) > do > echo $n > done The $ is not necessary, since the expressions are evaluated as arithmetic expressions. Thus: for (( n = 1; n < 12; ++n )) do ... done -- Bernd Eggink Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Hamburg eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/eggink/BEggink.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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