Re: Trying to reverse a word.

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 20, 12:01am, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
} Subject: Trying to reverse a word.
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} % echo "${(j::)${(Oa)${(s::):-hello}}}"
} h e l l o
} What the heck is going on here?

The double quotes cause ${(Oa)${(s::):-hello}} to be joined with the
default IFS before the (j::) is ever applied.  Add an (@) to force
that array to remain an array:

echo "${(j::)${(@Oa)${(s::):-hello}}}"