Re: variable expansion inside string

[Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@xxxxxxxxx>]

thanks Peter, for my use case it actually works really nice this way. I was
hoping for something that wouldn't allow arbitrary command execution for
future uses, but I guess that would need a proper templating system of sorts
best regards

Pier Paolo Grassi
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Il giorno mar 30 lug 2019 alle ore 16:24 Peter Stephenson <
p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

> On Tue, 2019-07-30 at 15:15 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > The nearest I can think of is:
> >
> > print -r -- "${(e):-$a}"
>
> Or, actually, a straight
>
> print -r -- "${(e)a}"
>
> since you don't need to add any text to the variable substitution.
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> pws
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