Re: Removing an element from an array

["Peter Slížik" <peter.slizik@gmail.com>]

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Dear Roman,

thank you for both suggestions.

By the way,  can I ask why it is necessary to re-introduce the array
context by another pair of parentheses, if the expression already produces
an array value?

Or does the ${...:|...} expression produce a string which needs to be
parsed again? Would this cause problems if any of the path elements
contained a space in the file name?

Thank you,
Peter

пон, 2. нов 2020. у 12:25 Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
је написао/ла:

> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 12:11 PM Peter Slížik <peter.slizik@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to remove an element from an array - actually a path from
> the $path variable. After some googling, I've discovered the ${array:|excl}
> syntax.
> >
> > Here is my code:
> >
> > excl=($path_to_remove)
> > export path=${path:|excl}
>
> This is pretty close. Here's the correct syntax:
>
>     excl=($path_to_remove)
>     path=(${path:|excl})
>
> However, if you want to remove just one element, there is a simpler way:
>
>     path=(${path:#$path_to_remove})
>
> Roman.
>

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