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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Belaboring substitution syntax
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:32:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMpXUU3wTCDj+hLbPSJKUsR02fFNLXPsdLwTJQ0B7ahK7g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7ZWz0cdQLc9kr1cTBun=5TW4=1meSzc8Uf4JBTM9Wa9NQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 2:50 AM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 6:18 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> >
> > In my case, leaving the quotes out doesn't *seem* to matter but I know it would bite me eventually.  When would it bite me?
>
> In the specific example in this thread, zsh's default array behavior
> (no_SH_WORD_SPLIT) is sufficient, but if you later enclose that or a
> similar construct in a deeper context, yes, you might be bitten.

Without the quotes empty elements will be dropped. Ray wants ${#cc} to
stay unchanged, so quotes are required.

Roman.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-16 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-10  0:43 coloring substitution seems to eat next line Ray Andrews
2022-11-10  8:02 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-10 18:25   ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-10 18:36     ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-10 18:45       ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-10 18:54       ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-10 19:28         ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-10 20:22           ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-10 21:42             ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-10 21:51               ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-11 17:24                 ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-10 22:47               ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-10 23:07                 ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-10 23:27                   ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-11 15:00                     ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-11 18:15                       ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-11 18:50                         ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-11 19:25                           ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-11 21:26                             ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-12  4:24                               ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-12 14:03                                 ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-13 15:09                                   ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-14 14:12                                     ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-14 17:08                                     ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-14 17:12                                       ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-14 18:58                                         ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-14 20:00                                           ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-14 23:25                                             ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-15 14:17                                               ` Belaboring substitution syntax Ray Andrews
2022-11-16  1:49                                                 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-16  2:54                                                   ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-16  6:26                                                     ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-16 14:08                                                       ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-16 14:13                                                         ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-17  2:31                                                           ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-17  8:59                                                             ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-17 16:02                                                               ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-16 20:46                                                       ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-16 10:32                                                   ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]

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