From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: (z) expansion flag do not always return an array
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:34:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMpHw6m23qLyy3kurDgXvs1nRW6XAs3FEUQc7wX-Jpzysw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k0grdlls.fsf@luffy.cx>
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 4:32 PM Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> wrote:
>
> Is there an easy way to know if something is an array or a string?
> I am using subscripting for that but maybe there are better ways.
If you had a parameter, you could use ${(t)foo} or $parameters[foo] to
find its type. However, if you had a parameter you wouldn't have this
problem to begin with.
foo=(${(z)...})
Here foo is always an array.
Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-29 16:35 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 [this message]
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
2021-11-29 19:43 ` Bart Schaefer
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