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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
Cc: Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: (z) expansion flag do not always return an array
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:45:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aSJ+QJc36EdJhxRQszj5nHaryXEoj+F3J-hVgGuVEW7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1be1289c-c3a1-4730-baab-5625af464cb1@www.fastmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 8:51 AM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021, at 10:31 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> > The (z) expansion flag is documented to return an array
>
> Is it?  The 5.8 man page does not mention "array" even once.

True, but "split" usually implies $@ -variety results.  Also:

>         [...].  So to access single words in the result use nested
>         expansions as in `${${(z)foo}[2]}'.

That would lead one to believe that ${${(z)foo}[1]} also returns a
single word, but as PWS notes the context may alter that.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-29 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-29 15:31 Vincent Bernat
2021-11-29 16:34 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-11-29 17:44   ` Vincent Bernat
2021-11-29 16:50 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-11-29 17:03   ` Peter Stephenson
2021-11-29 17:43   ` Vincent Bernat
2021-11-29 17:45   ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2021-11-29 19:43 ` Bart Schaefer

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