From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: more splitting travails
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:19:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7ZJsr7hGRvD8f-wUogPcGt0DMOcPyiYMpcwCsbBNkRwuQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca1761f1-6d8f-452a-b16d-2bfce9076e25@eastlink.ca>
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:05 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> There's nothing harder than really getting on top of splitting issues :(
>
> I have a file with blank lines in it, I read it into a variable
This is probably the place you're getting messed up. HOW do you read
it into a variable?
> Other various attempts give me the number of elements being the
> character count. Weirdly there's places where I iterate over all the
> lines in 'List' and it *counts* nine, but only displays five.
Here you've probably done an earlier step right, but are forgetting to
quote what you're passing to print (or whatever "display" means). The
default for arrays on the command line is to remove empty elements
unless quoted.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-12 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-12 19:05 Ray Andrews
2024-01-12 19:19 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2024-01-12 19:56 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-12 20:07 ` Mark J. Reed
[not found] ` <CAA=-s3zc5a+PA7draaA=FmXtwU9K8RrHbb70HbQN8MhmuXTYrQ@mail.gmail.com>
2024-01-12 20:03 ` Fwd: " Bart Schaefer
2024-01-12 20:32 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-12 20:50 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-01-13 2:12 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-12 20:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-12 21:57 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-01-12 22:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-13 3:06 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-13 3:36 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-13 4:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-13 5:39 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-01-13 20:02 ` Slurping a file (was: more spllitting travails) Bart Schaefer
2024-01-13 20:07 ` Slurping a file Ray Andrews
2024-01-14 5:03 ` zcurses mouse delay (not Re: Slurping a file) Bart Schaefer
2024-01-14 5:35 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-14 10:34 ` Slurping a file (was: more spllitting travails) Roman Perepelitsa
2024-01-14 10:57 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-01-14 15:36 ` Slurping a file Ray Andrews
2024-01-14 15:41 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-01-14 20:13 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-01-15 0:03 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-15 0:55 ` Empty element elision and associative arrays (was Re: Slurping a file) Bart Schaefer
2024-01-15 4:09 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-15 7:01 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-01-15 14:47 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-18 16:20 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-01-18 17:22 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-18 17:36 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-01-18 17:55 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-18 22:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-18 23:08 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-19 2:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-19 2:58 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-19 10:27 ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-01-19 13:45 ` Mikael Magnusson
2024-01-19 14:37 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-01-19 14:57 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-19 15:46 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-01-19 16:01 ` Mikael Magnusson
2024-01-19 17:15 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-19 17:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-19 18:45 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-14 22:09 ` Slurping a file (was: more spllitting travails) Bart Schaefer
2024-01-15 8:53 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-01-16 19:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-16 20:07 ` Slurping a file Ray Andrews
2024-01-16 20:14 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-01-16 20:38 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-16 20:43 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-01-16 22:27 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-15 2:00 ` Slurping a file (was: more spllitting travails) Bart Schaefer
2024-01-15 4:24 ` Slurping a file Ray Andrews
2024-01-15 6:56 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-01-15 14:37 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-15 15:10 ` Marc Chantreux
2024-01-15 15:29 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-01-15 16:16 ` Marc Chantreux
2024-01-15 16:33 ` MUAs (was: Re: Slurping a file) zeurkous
2024-01-16 7:23 ` Slurping a file Lawrence Velázquez
2024-01-16 14:37 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-17 3:50 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-01-17 5:10 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-15 7:26 ` Slurping a file (was: more spllitting travails) Lawrence Velázquez
2024-01-15 14:48 ` Slurping a file Ray Andrews
2024-01-15 13:13 ` Slurping a file (was: more spllitting travails) Marc Chantreux
2024-02-10 20:48 ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-02-11 0:59 ` Mikael Magnusson
2024-02-11 4:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-02-11 5:04 ` Mikael Magnusson
2024-02-11 4:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-02-11 5:06 ` Mikael Magnusson
2024-02-11 7:09 ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-01-13 2:19 ` Fwd: more splitting travails Ray Andrews
2024-01-13 3:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-13 4:54 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-13 5:51 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-01-13 16:40 ` Ray Andrews
2024-01-13 18:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-01-13 19:08 ` Ray Andrews
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