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Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:05:39 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=NJYTuW2g c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=65a18d83 a=e7T7DzMKK1R988ZCg0wLyw==:117 a=e7T7DzMKK1R988ZCg0wLyw==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=7XccfoddJ9Sd92BhHhsA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-Vade-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvkedrvdeihedguddulecutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfgtefuvffnkffpmfdpqfgfvfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmnecujfgurhepkfffgggfvffhufgtgfesthekredttddvjeenucfhrhhomheptfgrhicutehnughrvgifshcuoehrrgihrghnughrvgifshesvggrshhtlhhinhhkrdgtrgeqnecuggftrfgrthhtvghrnhepveegueehueevueelvdefieekteevfedukedugeeihedvvdfgvdffieekheeggefgnecukfhppedvgedrvddtjedrudelrddufeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepihhnvghtpedvgedrvddtjedrudelrddufedphhgvlhhopegludelvddrudeikedrtddruddungdpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehrrgihrghnughrvgifshesvggrshhtlhhinhhkrdgtrgdpnhgspghrtghpthhtohepvddprhgtphhtthhopeerredprhgtphhtthhopeiishhhqdhushgvrhhsseiishhhrdhorhhgpdhgvghtqdgkihhprfgrshhsfigupehtrhhuvg X-Vade-Score: -100 X-Vade-State: 0 X-EL-AUTH: rayandrews@eastlink.ca Message-id: Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:05:38 -0800 MIME-version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-language: en-US To: Zsh Users From: Ray Andrews Subject: more splitting travails Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Seq: 29446 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: There's nothing harder than really getting on top of splitting issues :( I have a file with blank lines in it, I read it into a variable then pass that variable to a function " % n_list $var ".  Inside the function I assign to a local variable 'List'.  The file/variable has five lines of data and four blank lines.     #    local List=( "$@" ) # ONE element but $List prints correctly with spaces (nine lines).     #    local List=( "${=@}" ) # FIVE elements but blank lines are gone (prints five lines). How can I end up with nine elements and it prints correctly too? If it were a 'normal' variable I know this works:     List=$some_variable[@] ... but:     List=$@[@] ... doesn't work and looks sick and twisted anyway. Other various attempts give me the number of elements being the character count.  Weirdly there's places where I iterate over all the lines in 'List' and it *counts* nine, but only displays five. I could pound away at this but I'm going to just ask the people who understand these things.