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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: splitting in assignment forms of expansion
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:41:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3S6ncDedfiuFWzT5KN2=-6=ppdjLRiJZOMupCc5NZvtvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120927024236.GA7385@localhost.localdomain>

On 27/09/2012, Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The manpage of zshexpn states about "${=...}":
>
>       Note  that  splitting is applied to word in the assignment forms
>       of spec before  the  assignment  to  name  is  performed.   This
>       affects the result of array assignments with the A flag.
>
> but looks like the splitting isn't applied to word first:
>
> % print -l ${=xx::=foo           bar}
> foo
> bar
> %  print -l $xx
> foo           bar
> %
>
> I'm confused on this. Please help.

If you actually use the (A) flag,
% print -l ${=xx::=foo bar} . $xx . ${(A)=xx::=foo bar} . $xx
foo
bar
.
foo bar
.
foo
bar
.
foo
bar

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27  4:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-27  2:42 Han Pingtian
2012-09-27  4:41 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2012-09-29  1:40   ` Han Pingtian
2012-12-27  7:08   ` Han Pingtian

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