From: Bernd Eggink <eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
To: zsh mailing list <zsh-users@math.gatech.edu>
Cc: zefram@tao.co.uk
Subject: Re: Exporting arrays
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:24:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34BA8A1B.4FE1AAC4@rrz.uni-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199801121515.PAA11821@taos.demon.co.uk>
Zefram wrote:
>
> Bernd Eggink wrote:
> > a=(${(s(:))aex})
> >
> >Unfortunately this doesn't work if an array element is empty! Example:
>
> Both behaviours are useful. What would really be nice would be to
> make the delimiter a glob pattern, so that both behaviours (and more)
> are available.
Hm, for me just the two of them would be enough...
> That would make the default behave the way you want it,
> which is probably better overall, because if one really wanted the other
> form of splitting then this would become immediately obvious.
Why not simply supply a separate flag? At present, things are really
confusing: the 's' flags works this way, option SH_WORD_SPLIT the other
way. And, to deepen confusion, the documentation of the 's' flag refers
to option SH_WORD_SPLIT as if both were equivalent!
Bernd
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Bernd Eggink
Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Hamburg
eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/eggink/BEggink.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-12 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-11 18:16 Adam Spiers
1998-01-12 3:51 ` Geoff Wing
1998-01-12 9:01 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-01-12 10:45 ` Andrew Main
1998-01-12 13:48 ` Bernd Eggink
1998-01-12 15:15 ` Andrew Main
1998-01-12 21:24 ` Bernd Eggink [this message]
1998-01-12 22:12 ` Adam Spiers
1998-01-12 23:15 ` Mirar
1998-01-13 1:39 ` Adam Spiers
1998-01-13 14:12 ` Mirar
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