On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 3:41 PM Roman Perepelitsa <
roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 21:39, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought this would give me the length of the string, but it seems to be
>> counting words instead:
>>
>>      zsh% echo ${#$(echo hello)}
>>      1
>>
>> Is this a bug? I thought I'd need a modifier flag to treat output as an
>> array and give me  a word count, while character count would be the default.
>>
>
> Process substitution gives you an array. Quote it if you need a scalar.
>

You mean command substitution, but thanks! It wouldn't have occurred to me
to put quotes around it to change what the `#` was counting!


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>