From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>,
Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: "${*:offset:length}" and ksh93/bash compatibility
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 11:21:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aa8J9pTcBcTYqkHPx_2Z+GP8oUHXLyJt1FJ2nwsmzwTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3TTtr_4ib5rebTb+XicG1s0oEKcz8wAKdOcD2ztdOy8Xg@mail.gmail.com>
Arriving to this a bit late, have been traveling.
On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 8:22 AM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> zsh% a=(one two three); echo "${a[*]:0:2}"
> on
> zsh% bash -c 'a=(one two three); echo "${a[*]:0:2}"'
> one two
The [*] subscript in double quotes has always been treated differently
in zsh. You need [@] or the (@) modifier to preserve array-ness. I'm
not sure the presence of the :off:len suffix should change that as a
side-effect, at least not in native zsh mode ... and it might be
difficult to "notice" the suffix early enough in the expansion code to
cause that effect anyway. Particularly without also having the effect
that the end result is not joined into a single string.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-13 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-10 7:50 Stephane Chazelas
2022-03-10 12:48 ` Mikael Magnusson
2022-03-10 14:25 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-03-13 15:22 ` Mikael Magnusson
2022-03-13 18:21 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2022-03-13 19:23 ` Mikael Magnusson
2022-03-13 20:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-16 5:57 ` Jun T
2022-03-16 15:57 ` Mikael Magnusson
2022-03-23 8:08 ` Jun T
2022-03-23 10:23 ` Mikael Magnusson
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