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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: associative array questions
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:39:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YwW44YZH9vtu38cX+FyiX0G4Mtcwuubzm=fF3G=bDUzg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <859880bf-6808-ddf5-3376-5eff895daef3@eastlink.ca>

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 7:31 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> ${(P)list::="tea for two"}
>
> ... and I get the 'command not found: 'tea for  two' ' message.

Well, yes, its a ${...} substitution so it does return a value, which
you then have to do something with.  The usual idiom is the ":"
builtin:

% : ${(P)list::="tea for two"}
%


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-13  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-11 17:39 Ray Andrews
2022-12-11 19:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-11 20:51   ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-11 21:41     ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-11 22:37       ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-12  1:52         ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-12  3:09           ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13  3:31       ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13  4:39         ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2022-12-13 16:11           ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 16:22             ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-13 20:00               ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 20:06                 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-13 22:47                   ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 23:06                     ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-14  1:08                       ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 21:18             ` Bart Schaefer

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