Re: nesting issue

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 5, 2024, at 6:18 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 2024-05-05 13:14, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>> I don't see this behavior.
>> ...
>> 	aaa,3,pard
>> 	aaa,3a,pard
>> 
> 8 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk/Boneyard 1 % var=( aaa,3*(nN) ); print -l $var       
> aaa,3a,pard
> aaa,3,pard
>
> ... I don't know what to say.

Seems like differing locales (which I overlooked earlier).  On
Debian 12:

	% locale | grep -e LC_COLLATE -e LC_ALL
	LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
	LC_ALL=
	% : >aaa,3{,a},pard
	% print -lr -- aaa,3*(n)
	aaa,3a,pard
	aaa,3,pard
	% () { local LC_COLLATE=C; print -lr -- aaa,3*(n) }
	aaa,3,pard
	aaa,3a,pard

My earlier result was with "en_US.UTF-8" on macOS.


> 8 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk/Boneyard 1 % var=( aaa,6*(nN) ); print -l $var
> aaa,6
> aaa,6,    # sixth char ',' precedes sixth char 'a'
> aaa,6a
> aaa,6a,
> aaa,6a,howdy    # sixth char 'a' precedes sixth char ','
> aaa,6,howdy

Can't say I understand this result, but as above:

	% : >aaa,6{,a}{,\,,\,howdy}
	% print -lr -- aaa,6*(n)
	aaa,6
	aaa,6,
	aaa,6a
	aaa,6a,
	aaa,6a,howdy
	aaa,6,howdy
	% () { local LC_COLLATE=C; print -lr -- aaa,6*(n) }
	aaa,6
	aaa,6,
	aaa,6,howdy
	aaa,6a
	aaa,6a,
	aaa,6a,howdy


> I would have expected:
>
> aaa,6,    
> aaa,6a
> aaa,6,howdy
> aaa,6a,howdy

Why?


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vq