From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: "Zsh Hackers' List" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: parameter substitution for exclusion by array
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:55:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3TE2rwtnB2R7+MLtNVvbNhqp5Fz4A67FPqkYt6H0tiBtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120420202051.367d012e@pws-pc.ntlworld.com>
On 2012-04-20, Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> Then I realised it was a trivial modification to get the intersection of
> two arrays instead. For that, ${...:&...} might be nice, but :& can be
> a history modifier. So I picked ${...:*...} as being the nearest thing
> that wasn't used.
Using ${path:*notexist} prints all elements of $path, not sure if that
is what one should expect or not. ${path:|notexist} does the same but
that makes a lot more sense to me :). ${path:*SCALAR} and :| act the
same way, substitute all elements in $path.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-22 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-20 19:20 Peter Stephenson
2012-04-21 21:05 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-21 21:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-04-21 22:06 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-22 12:55 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2012-04-22 18:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-23 13:54 ` PATCH: NEWS: mention new array operations Mikael Magnusson
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