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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
To: gene@bear.com
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh workers list)
Subject: Re: Re: is this really correct
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:33:20 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199606101833.UAA06977@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9606101807.AA03486@bear.com> from "gene@bear.com" at "Jun 10, 96 02:07:15 pm"

>   What is the "preferred" way of testing strings that may be arbitrarily
>   input then given the above ? I mean one does not know what 'a' is until
>   you do a test on it right ?

As I said I'll modify [ ... ] according to POSIX which will fix this
problem (maybe it was not clear that test and [ are the same).  But in zsh
one can use

% a="-s"; if [[ "$a" = "-s" ]] then echo "yeh" ; fi

which should work with all zsh versions.

Zoltan



      reply	other threads:[~1996-06-10 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-06-10 18:07 gene
1996-06-10 18:33 ` Zoltan Hidvegi [this message]

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