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From: "Jesper Nygårds" <jesper.nygards@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Split on unquoted space
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 09:22:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABZhJg8AU-U2xbwYLwMRVB4Q=sizTxDK3ZirjfqEEZUrf-_dYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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This might well be a case of me not understanding my problem, but is there
a way to use parameter expansion to split only on unquoted spaces?

If I have myvar="my\ string", ${=myvar}  results in "my\" and "var", i.e.
zsh doesn't care about the fact that the space is quoted.

On the other hand, myvar="my\ var", ${(z)myvar} does respect the quoted
space and makes no split, but then myvar="my|var", ${(z)myvar} results in
"my" "|" "var", which is not what I want in this case.

So in short, is there a way to only split on space, but not split on a
quoted space?

             reply	other threads:[~2018-09-28  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-28  7:22 Jesper Nygårds [this message]
2018-09-28  8:29 ` Jesper Nygårds

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