From: rahul <rahul2012@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: array matching: inconsistent behaviour ?
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 12:00:34 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACQNQ9Mn8ydkZ5+EckXJ38ywV8iCxyqcBzVCTFSTH4bs6QNLBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Or am I doing the matching wrong? I am storing file names in an array.
Later I match filenames against those in the array for various purposes.
The filenames contain spaces and in this unfortunate case round brackets.
File names with brackets are failing the match.
FOO=()
x="a file"
y="a(file)b"
FOO+=($x)
FOO+=($y)
print $FOO[(i)$x]
print $FOO[(i)$y]
# Now I found, that if i quote the string while matching then the comma
file matches, but now the space file fails.
print $FOO[(i)$x:q]
print $FOO[(i)$y:q]
If I escape/quote the string when adding to the array then again one of the
two matches fails. In any case, I cannot escape the names when inserting
into the array, as often double quoting/escaping happens when methods are
called repeatedly, and external commands give errors if they get quoted
filenames. I only quote the string finally if I am "eval"ing a command.
I'd like to know if I am doing this wrong, is there a consistent way of
matching the string inside the array.
--
rahul
next reply other threads:[~2013-01-09 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-09 6:30 rahul [this message]
2013-01-09 9:35 ` Han Pingtian
2013-01-09 10:23 ` rahul
2013-01-09 9:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-01-09 10:33 ` rahul
2013-01-09 15:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-01-09 16:53 ` rahul
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