Re: var to Array conversion ?

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@xxxxxx>:
>  In a shell script a variable foo is set to 2.0:3.5:0.2
>    a=2.0:3.5:0.2
>  is there a any short one liner to convert the contents of a into
>  the contents which would result from an assignment like
>    a=(2.0 3.5 0.2)

See 'man zshbuiltins' (the 'typeset' builtin, '-T' option).

Example:

[snip]
# 3rd arg. to typeset -T is optional (default ':').
typeset -T string array ':'
string="one:two:three:four"
array+=five
print -l $array
[snap]

That is not exactly converting. It is more a way to connect a string
to an array, just as with the $PATH and $path or $FPATH and $fpath
parameters.

Regards, Frank

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