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Re: Re: is this really correct

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: gene@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Re: is this really correct
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:33:20 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh workers list)
In-reply-to: <9606101807.AA03486@xxxxxxxx> from "gene@xxxxxxxx" at "Jun 10, 96 02:07:15 pm"
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>   What is the "preferred" way of testing strings that may be arbitrarily
>   input then given the above ? I mean one does not know what 'a' is until
>   you do a test on it right ?

As I said I'll modify [ ... ] according to POSIX which will fix this
problem (maybe it was not clear that test and [ are the same).  But in zsh
one can use

% a="-s"; if [[ "$a" = "-s" ]] then echo "yeh" ; fi

which should work with all zsh versions.

Zoltan

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- Re: Re: is this really correct
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