On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 21:39, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought this would give me the length of the string, but it seems to be
> counting words instead:
>
>      zsh% echo ${#$(echo hello)}
>      1
>
> Is this a bug? I thought I'd need a modifier flag to treat output as an
> array and give me  a word count, while character count would be the default.
>

Process substitution gives you an array. Quote it if you need a scalar.

Roman.

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