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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: globbing in the repeat-count word gives "illegal character"
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:37:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3RdF4bRq+rbEeox4PNeWjBEZ1pcuGSJAj3q5xEwxj5riQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200317032945.696066ab@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2>

On 3/17/20, Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> [[[
> $ 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)
> %
> ]]]

Not limited to globbing characters,

% repeat { false
zsh: bad math expression: illegal character: \M-O


-- 
Mikael Magnusson

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-17 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-17  3:29 Daniel Shahaf
2020-03-17 18:37 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
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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