Re: Bad expansion

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 21,  2:51pm, Zefram wrote:
} Subject: Re: Bad expansion
}
} DervishD wrote:
} >    # Bad substitution
} >    echo ${${testing[1]}_VALUE}
} 
} echo ${(e):-\$${testing[1]}_VALUE}
} 
} The :-\ is a smiley that means "maybe there ought to be a neater way".

There's also

	echo ${(P)${:-${testing[1]}_VALUE}}

but I don't know whether that can be considered "neater."

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