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RE: BUG: zsh-3.1.5-pws-14: parameter expansion not working properly

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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx>
To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: BUG: zsh-3.1.5-pws-14: parameter expansion not working properly
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:26:57 +0400
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>
> All that aside, a desirable (?) effect of the current interpretation is
> that join reverses split (except for the initial array-to-scalar change):
>

... as long as no SH_WORD_SPLIT is in effect. IFS splits may remove more
than IFS joins add.

> zsh% print -l ${(j/:/)${(s/:/)foo}}
> a:b x:y
>
> With your interpretation, this would yield a:b:x:y.

Don't laugh - it was exactly what I needed once. And I personally find
nothing wrong or illogical with it.

/andrej

References:
- Re: BUG: zsh-3.1.5-pws-14: parameter expansion not working properly
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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