Re: Subscripting without temporaries

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Pennock <phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 2004-04-13 at 12:40 -0400, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>> > txt="Some text [particular text] Another text"
>> > print -l $txt[1,$txt[(i)\[]-2] $txt[(r)\[,(R)\]] $txt[$txt[(I)\]]+2,-1]
>> 
>> This is cool.  But what options are necessary in order to make this
>> work?  The commands above produce this output for me:
>> 
>>   Some
>>   text
>>   [particular
>>   text]
>>   Another
>>   text
>> 
>> This is the same as what I get with this:
>> 
>>   print -l $txt
>
> That means that you have SH_WORD_SPLIT turned on, which is not a zsh
> default.

I'm not sure why, but I had long ago turned on SH_WORD_SPLIT and forgot
about it.  I turned it off, and now this works as advertised.  Thanks!



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