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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:51:54 +0000
To: DervishD <raul@viadomus.com>
Cc: Zsh <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Bad expansion
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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>

DervishD wrote:
>    # Bad substitution
>    echo ${${testing[1]}_VALUE}

echo ${(e):-\$${testing[1]}_VALUE}

The :-\ is a smiley that means "maybe there ought to be a neater way".

-zefram