Re: Arrays with each item on one line

["Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, TJ Luoma wrote:

> I don't understand arrays very well and am trying to learn.
>
> I keep trying to do things like this:
>
> FILES=("$HOME/Library/Application Support/Keyboard Maestro"
> "$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor.plist"
> "$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.engine.plist"
> "$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.plist")
>
> for F in $FILES
> do
>
> command ls -ld "$F"
>
> done
>
> but instead of $F being each line for 4 iterations of the loop, I get 
> all 4 lines x 4 times.
>
> [...]
>
> Can someone tell me what I'm missing?
>
> [...]
>
> Zsh version 4.3.11 on Mac OS X/10.7

Your example works fine for me using Zsh version 4.3.11 under OSX 10.7.

What do you get from running 'setopt'? I get:

autocd
noautomenu
autopushd
nocheckjobs
cshjunkiehistory
extendedglob
extendedhistory
noglobalrcs
globdots
histignoredups
histignorespace
histnostore
histsubstpattern
nohup
incappendhistory
interactive
login
magicequalsubst
monitor
nonotify
promptsubst
pushdsilent
shinstdin
zle

I don't think any of those should affect how arrays are interpreted. 
So, you can probably ignore any of the ones in that list that appear in 
yours, too.

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Best,
Ben