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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
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On 9 October 2014 23:14, Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wro=
te:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 21:00:32 +0600
> Vasiliy Ivanov <beelzebubbie.logs@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry if I (maybe) missed something obvious, but I failed to find a way =
to use separator from
>> parameter (e.g. a=3D'1:2:3'; sep=3D':'; print -l ${(s.$sep.)a}).
>> I think this is because expansion/substitution are not available in
>> flags? If so, is there any  another way for such a =C2=ABdynamic=C2=BB s=
plitting?
>
> I don't think you've missed anything obvious or elegant.
>
> One way is
>
> (){
>   local IFS=3D$sep
>   print -l ${=3Da}
> }
>
> Or if you can rely on not having whitespace
>
> print -l ${=3D${a//:/ }}
>
> Or, of course,
>
> eval print -l '${(s.'$sep'.)a}'
>
> as long as you can sanity check $sep.
>
>
> Of course there's nothing to stop us adding a simple parameter
> substitution as a special case at this point (or any similarly delimited
> parameter argument) ...  Can't see how this can do much harm since it
> sure as heck *looks* like a parameter expansion.

I checked to make sure you can still do (s:$:) and that does still
work. Moving into extremely unlikely corner-case land, (s:$b:) would
split on the literal string $b before. With the patch, it actually
still does, but only if b is unset. If b is set, then it is expanded
and the expansion is split on instead. So the only problem here would
be if someone used to split on a literal string $foo and then foo is
set, their code would stop working.

I don't know if it's worth it but we could possibly elect to only do
this expansion if the p flag is active? Right now it means to expand
\t into a literal tab, but it makes sense to have it more generally
mean "expand stuff" in the string I think?

eg, I think this would do it?
+    if (escapes && (*s =3D=3D String || *s =3D=3D Qstring) && s[1]) {


--=20
Mikael Magnusson