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From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: globbing in the repeat-count word gives "illegal character"
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 03:29:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200317032945.696066ab@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (raw)

[[[
$ Src/zsh -f
% cd "$(mktemp -d)"
% repeat ? true 
zsh: bad math expression: illegal character: \M-W
% 
]]]

[[[
frame #1: 0x0000000000487eac zsh`matheval(s="\x97") at math.c:1479
   1476     x = mathevall(s, MPREC_TOP, &junk);
   1477     mtok = xmtok;
   1478     if (*junk)
-> 1479         zerr("bad math expression: illegal character: %c", *junk);
   1480     return x;
   1481 }
   1482
(lldb) p *junk
(char) $0 = '\x97'
]]]

[[[
% ag 0x97 | cat
Src/zsh.h:191:#define Quest             ((char) 0x97)
% 
]]]

             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-17  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-17  3:29 Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2020-03-17 18:37 ` Mikael Magnusson
2020-03-23  5:31   ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-03-23  6:53     ` Mikael Magnusson
2020-03-25 21:09       ` Peter Stephenson
     [not found]         ` <20200325234655.786e8a88@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2>
2020-03-26 20:58           ` Peter Stephenson

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