From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: trapped in bash
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:38:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5855CC93.2050505@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+rB6GKuS8w3DHiE-r9Da5-bbmBNqSYWc0myLp=Xab=cr_UEbQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/17/2016 03:16 PM, Jim wrote:
>
>
> _count=${#${(f)_variable}}
>
> This will remove the need for the variable _array. One caution, if your
> not already aware, (f) removes blank lines, so they won't show up in
> the count.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jim
>
Thanks Jim, my experiments failed 'cuz I insisted on including the
parenthesis, but since no array is created, no parenthesis are needed.
Clear in hindsight.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-18 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-16 15:33 Ray Andrews
2016-12-16 21:51 ` Aaron Schrab
2016-12-16 22:39 ` Ray Andrews
2016-12-16 23:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-17 20:27 ` Ray Andrews
2016-12-17 20:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-17 22:40 ` Ray Andrews
[not found] ` <5855BEF2.6090208__18199.534857604$1482015164$gmane$org@eastlink.ca>
2016-12-18 15:06 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-12-18 15:54 ` Ray Andrews
2016-12-19 0:32 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-12-19 2:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-19 4:29 ` Ray Andrews
2016-12-19 5:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-19 16:26 ` Ray Andrews
[not found] ` <ab7aeb33-d091-6602-8baa-cce92300d289__26556.3400615521$1482166729$gmane$org@eastlink.ca>
2016-12-19 17:47 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-12-17 23:16 ` Jim
2016-12-17 23:38 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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