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Re: zsh equivalent to string manipulation with offset and length

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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: xulxer <xulxer@xxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: zsh equivalent to string manipulation with offset and length
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:06:59 -0500
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In the last episode (Oct 20), Clint Adams said:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 01:15:06PM +0200, xulxer wrote:
> > string="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
> > echo ${string:10:5}
> 
> string="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
> print ${string[11,15]}

, which matches the syntax for accessing array elements, and is much
more readable than bash's syntax imho.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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