Re: Is quoting of the assigned value needed?

[Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 11:46, Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2019-11-22 at 03:03 +0100, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> > Hello,
> > SH_WORD_SPLIT doesn't seem to cause any effects in this context:
> >
> > setopt SH_WORD_SPLIT
> > var1="a   b"
> > var2=$var1
> > print "$var2"
> >
> > Output: a   b
>
> Correct, there's no splitting there: you've got a quoted assignment, a
> single word assignment, and quoted output.
>
> What you should be doing depends on what you're trying to do, which you
> don't say.

I'm thinking on simplifying the plugin standard's proposed $0
handling, which is currently:

0="${${ZERO:-${0:#$ZSH_ARGZERO}}:-${(%):-%N}}"
0="${${(M)0:#/*}:-$PWD/$0}"

I.e.: about skipping the quoting. Before I do this is want to be
completely sure that it'll always work.

> Do you want var2 to be an array of split parts of $var1?  In
> that case, do an array assignment.
>
> var2=($var1)
>
> pws
>

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