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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: typeset -LZ
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 20:06:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4808f307-dc78-494e-9e2f-6285457e9819@eastlink.ca> (raw)


3 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 0 $ unset aaa; typeset aaa='  001200  '; dp 
aaa; echo $aaa
scalar aaa='  001200  '
   001200

3 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 0 $ unset aaa; typeset -L aaa='  001200 '; dp 
aaa; echo $aaa
scalar-left aaa='  001200  '
001200

3 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 0 $ unset aaa; typeset -LZ aaa='001200 '; dp 
aaa; echo $aaa
scalar-left-right_zeros aaa='001200  '
1200

3 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 0 $ unset aaa; typeset -LZ aaa=' 001200  '; dp 
aaa; echo $aaa
scalar-left-right_zeros aaa='  001200  '
   001200

... Is the last output really what we want?  '-LZ' ends up having no 
effect if there are leading spaces.  Wouldn't it be more useful if the 
leading spaces were always removed, as '-L' promises to do, and the '-Z' 
then insured that leading zeros were stripped as well?  That is, 
shouldn't the last two commands above both output '1200'?  As it is, the 
'-Z' and the '-L' basically cancel each other.




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