From: "Jesper Nygårds" <jesper.nygards@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Split on unquoted space
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:29:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABZhJg9VZezr_iCA8UbGVN_dJU7mTJtRuBXL9Cm_kssLNujUeg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABZhJg8AU-U2xbwYLwMRVB4Q=sizTxDK3ZirjfqEEZUrf-_dYg@mail.gmail.com>
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Never mind, this was indeed a problem I did not really have: I had
prematurely joined an array into a string, and then wanting to split the
string caused my problem. Not joining the array in the first place was the
obvious solution.
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 9:22 AM Jesper Nygårds <jesper.nygards@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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?
>
>
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2018-09-28 7:22 Jesper Nygårds
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