Re: how to truncate an array

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/05/2014 03:02 AM, J. Darel Henman wrote:
> Ray, I agree with the recommendation that you stop making assumptions 
> that a shell's method of handilng a particular data structure, is the 
> same as how one of the C language library functions does. The source 
> code is availabe for you to read and study. If you come up with a 
> better algorithm I'm sure it would be adopted. Thanks 
Pardon. Just musing/speculating out loud. Actually, I am trying to 
remind myself not to think C while at the same time remembering that zsh 
is written in C. It will be a whole long time before I feel competent to 
make any serious suggestions.