On 2024-04-12 20:25, Lawrence Velázquez
wrote:
We all understand that it can be difficult to boil a problem down
to a tractable, self-contained example. But the alternative you've
chosen -- presenting baffling examples without necessary context,
describing your debugging attempts in vague terms without concrete
details, and inventing deeply bogus theories instead of consulting
the documentation first -- is making it difficult for us to help.
On the contrary, your help has been most effective. I wouldn't know
how to expand the context without expanding it 'all the way out' and
that's more context than you want, trust me. And sorry about the
deeply bogus theories, I know they're deeply bogus but I'm a pattern
seeking animal and I'll attempt to model what I think is going on
knowing full well that I'm usually wrong.
Bart:
> I have no idea where you think dollar signs are
coming from ... unless possibly because "typeset -p" will output array
elements using $'...' quoting if there are certain non-printable
characters in the element?
I dunno. I've lost the example that I saved. Never mind, I'll keep an eye on it, and figure out next time. Red herring for now. It's a bit confusing looking into typeset -p output. All this 'splitting' stuff is not simple. For now everything works and I'm quite sure it's a bit more orthodox.