Re: better grammar with $#

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2022-10-30 10:29, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> You can combine the two expansions:
>
>    linecount=${#${(f)output}}

Nuts, I came close I tried: $#{${(f)output}}

If you can replace the `find` command with a glob, it'll be simpler.

Yeah, I'm migrating in that direction already.

> You'll also avoid quoting issues. If your code is supposed to handle
> all sorts of file names, make sure it can handle files with backslash
> and line feed in their names.

God knows.  I tend to crash into problems like that when they happen and 
deal with it at the time.  I wish there was some option to protect 
strings from all such issues, all the time, everywhere.


> Roman.