From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: associative array questions
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:11:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7390c1ea-746d-43c8-7480-f860db4ccf03@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7YwW44YZH9vtu38cX+FyiX0G4Mtcwuubzm=fF3G=bDUzg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2022-12-12 20:39, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>
> % : ${(P)list::="tea for two"}
> %
Ha! I finally get to see that colon command do something. Anyway the
real situation is running into trouble (I try to keep my questions here
boiled down to the nub of the issue). What's being modified is an array
and the above method is interfering with the spit on lines; however it
seems to be the perfect example of eval doing the work as a visual
thinker would want it done:
local list=$1 # function takes name of array as argument.
eval 'list=( "${(@M)list:#(#i)*$SEARCHBUF*}" )' # filter the array.
... it has a sort of 'just-do-it' directness to it. The function was
previously working on only a specific array, and I'm trying to get it to
work on any array. Anyway the 'eval' method seems to work perfectly.
Subject to better advice of course.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-13 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-11 17:39 Ray Andrews
2022-12-11 19:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-11 20:51 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-11 21:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-11 22:37 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-12 1:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-12 3:09 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 3:31 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 4:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-13 16:11 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2022-12-13 16:22 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-13 20:00 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 20:06 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-13 22:47 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 23:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-14 1:08 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 21:18 ` Bart Schaefer
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