quoting words

[Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, I have something like

a=('aa bb' 'cc dd');

and I would like to get the quoted representation inside a string, so that

echo -e $b

'aa bb' 'cc dd'

or that

typeset -p b

gives

'''aa bb'' ''cc dd'''

I tried with

a=(sa\ bb cc\ dd); b="${(q+)a[@]}"; typeset -p b
typeset b='''sa bb cc dd'''

and other inconclusive variations

Pier Paolo Grassi