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From: Bernd Eggink <eggink@uni-hamburg.de>
To: Phil Pennock <phil@athenaeum.demon.co.uk>
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Arithmetic expression (bug?)
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 23:05:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3640CFA1.B40B6771@uni-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199811042134.VAA01156@athenaeum.demon.co.uk>

Phil Pennock wrote:
> 
> Okay, is a base-ten number, in the right context, an arithmetic
> expression?  The manual-page bit dealing with Arithmetic Evaluation
> (zshmisc(1)) doesn't explicitly say so, but it seems obvious that it
> should.
> 
> So, given this:
> -----------------------------< cut here >-------------------------------
> foo=alpha
> print -- ${(l<$[10]><x>)foo}
> print -- ${(l<10><x>)foo}
> -----------------------------< cut here >-------------------------------
> why does the third line produce:
> ./testfile: error in flags [3]
> ?

I can't reproduce this. For me it works perfectly. I get the expected

xxxxxalpha

Hm, are you sure the right shell is started with your script? 

Bernd

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  reply	other threads:[~1998-11-04 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-11-04 21:34 Phil Pennock
1998-11-04 22:05 ` Bernd Eggink [this message]
1998-11-05  1:40   ` Phil Pennock
1998-11-15 22:21     ` Bart Schaefer
1998-11-15 22:46 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-11-15 23:19   ` PATCH: 3.1.5 and 3.0.5: ${(l<e><s1><s2>)param} (was Re: Arithmetic expression (bug?)) Bart Schaefer
1998-11-15 23:25 ` More about ${(l:e::s1::s2:)param} Bart Schaefer

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