On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 3:07 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:46 AM Jim <linux.tech.guy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Zsh quoting at times makes me wonder. Do quoting? Don't do quoting?
> > The following case has me scratching my head.  Can someone explain what
> is
> > going on?
>
> This doesn't directly have to do with quoting, rather it has to do
> with ${param} expansion and brace expansion.  The short answer is you
> should never have unquoted { } inside the ${...}, because the first }
> encountered is usually going to be interpreted as a match to the ${
> and not to any other { in the string.  Where double-quoting gets
> involved is because inside a double-quoted string, none of the pairs
> of { } have been tokenized, so the lexer can't distinguish which of
> the two }} is the actual end of the expansion.
>
>
For the fifth statement:

 print -- "Date and Time:  ${(%):-%D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z}} Test"

The following works:

print -- "Date and Time:  ${(%):-"%D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z}"} Test"

Is this the correct interpretation of your statement, or did I somehow put
a bandaid on it.

I appreciate your input.

Thanks and best regards,

Jim