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From: Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: ${(s::)VAR} vs "${(s::)VAR}"
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:48:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFvQaj4rz82ByYJGhWBG-pZzZuJk4myGBsuSvj_PF64_HCfu1w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi!

I was surprised by the following (note that the first output consists of
3 lines while the second output consists of 4; the only difference between
the two cases is that the first one iterates over ${(s::)VAR} while the
second does so over its double-quoted variant, "${(s::)VAR}"):

% (VAR=123; for c ( ${(s::)VAR} ) echo ">$c<")
>1<
>2<
>3<
% (VAR=123; for c ( "${(s::)VAR}" ) echo ">$c<")
>1<
>2<
>3<
><

Even after-the-fact I cannot explain this difference.  I would appreciate
a description of what's going on (and that, I hope, will lead to the
sought-after explanation).

Thanks!

kj

             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-26 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-26 20:48 Kynn Jones [this message]
2012-04-27 20:38 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-28  2:50   ` Bart Schaefer
2012-04-29 18:22     ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-29 18:41     ` Peter Stephenson

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