bug in select

bug in select

[Yamamoto Hirotaka]

Hi,

I found a buggy feature in zsh's `select' built-in command.
here's the log.

   verdy% select i in aaa bbb ccc
   do echo $i
   done
   1) aaa  2) bbb  3) ccc  
   ?# 1
   0
   1) aaa  2) bbb  3) ccc  
   ?# 2
   0
   1) aaa  2) bbb  3) ccc  
   ?# 3
   0
   1) aaa  2) bbb  3) ccc  
   ?# 0
   0
   1) aaa  2) bbb  3) ccc  
   ?# aaa
   0
   1) aaa  2) bbb  3) ccc  

with zsh version 3.1.0, Linux-2.0.27 (Slakware-3.1)

ps) I cannot understand the usage of `&|' and `&!'.
could someone help me?

Re: bug in select

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

> Hi,
> 
> I found a buggy feature in zsh's `select' built-in command.
> here's the log.
> 
>    verdy% select i in aaa bbb ccc
>    do echo $i
>    done
>    1) aaa  2) bbb  3) ccc  
>    ?# 1
>    0

I bet that i is integer here.  Look:

hzoli% select i in aaa bbb ccc
do echo $i
done
1) aaa  2) bbb  3) ccc  
?# 1
aaa
1) aaa  2) bbb  3) ccc  
?# 

hzoli% integer i              
hzoli% select i in aaa bbb ccc
do echo $i
done
1) aaa  2) bbb  3) ccc  
?# 1
0
1) aaa  2) bbb  3) ccc  
?# 

Ksh behaves exactly the same way.  This is not a bug.  Add unset i before
select and it'll work.  Note that i becomes integer if it is initialised
first in an arithmetic expression, like let i=0 or $((i=0)).

Zoltan

Bug in select

[Bernd Eggink]

Zsh-3.1.4 has a bug in 'select': An empty user input is not treated
correctly, due to a misconstructed do-loop (in do ... while(0) break and
continue have the same effect).
Here is a patch:

--- loop.c.old  Wed Jul  1 19:19:26 1998
+++ loop.c      Wed Jul  1 19:28:28 1998
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
     inp = fdopen(dup((SHTTY == -1) ? 0 : SHTTY), "r");
     selectlist(args);
     for (;;) {
-       do {
+       for (;;) {
            if (empty(bufstack)) {
                if (interact && SHTTY != -1 && isset(USEZLE))
                    str = (char *)zleread(prompt3, NULL, 0);
@@ -178,11 +178,10 @@
            }
            if ((s = strchr(str, '\n')))
                *s = '\0';
-           if(!*str) {
+           if(*str) 
+           break;
                selectlist(args);
-               continue;
-           }
-       } while(0);
+       };
        setsparam("REPLY", ztrdup(str));
        i = atoi(str);
        if (!i)


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eggink@uni-hamburg.de
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