Re: pop - is there a more elegant solution

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jarausch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> just being curious,
> is there a more elegant (less cryptic) solution to
> 
> #!/bin/zsh
> # get the last parameter and shorten the list
> # emulate Perl's pop function
> echo $@
> last=$[-1]
> # shorten the parameter array
> set $@[0,$[-1+$#]]
> echo $@
> 
> Thanks for your opinion,

Not much less cryptic:

  last="$argv[-1]"
  argv[-1]=()


Bye
  Sven


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