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From: Marc Chantreux <marc.chantreux@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Style question: Can this be written in a more elegant way?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:58:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <444E38FE.6080702@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <060425074145.ZM1844@torch.brasslantern.com>

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> But (( $file[1] )) can't be right; it treats the file name as a math
> expression, so a file named "3-3" would execute PROG_FAIL.  You must
> at least mean (( ${+file[1]} )).

oopps ... that was forgotten when copy/paste ...


> ... you have failed to quote $REPLY so it substitutes the value that it
> had before the glob began to execute.  It's as if you had typed:
> 
> % : *(Nom[1]e:echo last file score:)
> 
> Correct is like so:
> 
> % : *(Nom[1]e:'echo last file $REPLY':)
> last file this
> last file is
> last file the
> last file score

i got the first error ... but what i expect is to treat only the nth 
element of the list.

% : *(Nom[1]e:'echo last file $REPLY':)
last file this
% : *(Nom[2]e:'echo last file $REPLY':)
last file is
...

and so on ...

regards.
mc


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-25 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-24  7:26 Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3
2006-04-24  8:27 ` Marc Chantreux
2006-04-24 15:21   ` Bart Schaefer
2006-04-25  7:55     ` Marc Chantreux
2006-04-25 14:41       ` Bart Schaefer
2006-04-25 14:58         ` Marc Chantreux [this message]
2006-04-25 17:03           ` Bart Schaefer
2006-04-25  6:37 Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3
2006-04-25  8:01 ` Marc Chantreux
2006-04-25 15:06   ` Bart Schaefer

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