From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>,
Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] var=$* and var=$@ create array with SHWORDSPLIT and null or unset IFS
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:14:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <170216211431.ZM25042@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62e5833f-14b1-b42b-31af-2f1532b565ed@inlv.org>
On Feb 17, 12:05am, Martijn Dekker wrote:
}
} In SHWORDSPLIT mode, if IFS is null (no field splitting) or unset
} (default fieldsplitting), both var=$* and var=$@ act like var=("$@"), so
} turn 'var' into an array.
This sounded naggingly familiar, and indeed:
30299: "$*" was split with SHWORDSPLIT if IFS was empty or unset
Undoing 30299 fixes the bug Martijn is reporting here, but re-introduces
the incorrect splitting behavior.
I haven't gotten any further with it than that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-17 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-16 23:05 Martijn Dekker
2017-02-17 0:07 ` Martijn Dekker
2017-02-17 5:14 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2017-02-20 18:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-02-20 21:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-02-20 22:13 ` Martijn Dekker
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