From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Julian Prein <druckdev@protonmail.com>
Cc: "zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: (z) word splitting on one word
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:16:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3QB4mMDWjH_YZVp5BB5C2D-vqmqKVEVe3cCjcvY-YeSCA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On 9/22/22, Julian Prein <druckdev@protonmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to get the last word of LBUFFER.
>
> What I did previously was:
>
> ${${(z)LBUFFER}[-1]}
>
> This worked flawlessly until I noticed today that it misbehaves if LBUFFER
> contains only one word. In this case it seems like `[-1]` acts on a scalar,
> as
> it expands to the last character instead of LBUFFER as I would expect.
>
> Is this expected behaviour?
>
> I now work around it by prepending LBUFFER with a dummy word so that it
> always
> has at least two words (I know that it is not empty). But this feels very
> hacky.
>
> Do you know of a better way?
${${(Az)LBUFFER}[-1]}
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-22 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-22 13:44 Julian Prein
2022-09-22 15:16 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2022-09-24 0:38 ` Julian Prein
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