Re: BUG: unexpected end of string in findsep()

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Andrej Borsenkow" wrote:
> As a result of testing something else ...
> 
> bor@itsrm2:~/test%> args "${(ps:'\C-@':)$(print -N *)}"
> 1
> DBI
> BUG: unexpected end of string in findsep()
> BUG: unexpected end of string in findsep()

I think the bug is in the error message:  at the point it's actually
testing I don't see any reason why there shouldn't be the end of the
string.  Maybe the patch below is what was intended.

By the way, you actually just need:

args "${(ps:\C-@:)$(print -N *)}"

since the single quotes are taken as literal characters inside the double
quotes.  It seems to work without single quotes with the double quotes just
around the command substitution, too.  I suspect trying to quote the
separation string is going to be problematic, because it isn't untokenized
properly.  But until you can find something that doesn't work that
should...

--- Src/utils.c.fs	Wed Jul  7 17:49:36 1999
+++ Src/utils.c	Wed Jul  7 17:49:52 1999
@@ -1735,10 +1735,11 @@
 	if (!*t)
 	    return i;
 	if (*(*s)++ == Meta) {
-	    (*s)++;
 #ifdef DEBUG
-	    if (! **s)
+	    if (! *(*s)++)
 		fprintf(stderr, "BUG: unexpected end of string in findsep()\n");
+#else
+	    (*s)++;
 #endif
 	}
     }

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