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From: <hzoli@VNET.IBM.COM> (Zoltan T. Hidvegi)
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Subject: Re: bugs?
In-Reply-To: <3381BCFD.59E2@rrz.uni-hamburg.de> from Bernd Eggink at "May 20, 97 05:02:21 pm"
To: eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Bernd Eggink)
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 15:58:24 -0400 (EDT)
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Bernd Eggink wrote:
> 1. I tried to split a parameter into words using the separator ':'.
>    Neither of this works:
>
>       x=a:b:c
>       print ${(s:::)x}
>       print ${(s:\::)x}
>       print ${(s:':':)x}
>
>    What I get is the message "zsh: error in flags". Although I
>    could work around it, I'd like to know if it _should_ work?

No, the separator cannot be escaped here, but you can use any character as
a separator.  E.g. ${(s[:])x} works.

> 2. The 'select' statement doesn't check its input properly.
>    If you enter, e.g., "2blah", it is taken as "2" and the rest is
>    ignored. This makes some things inconvenient. For example, I

I'll try to look at this.

Zoltan