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PATCH: Explain array append a bit better
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- From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
- Subject: PATCH: Explain array append a bit better
- Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:51:20 -0800
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My apologies if this is a duplicate, I was in the middle of sending it
when my desktop box briefly lost contact with the UPS due to a USB
error and decided that this meant power was failing and it needed to
shut down. I don't see it in the archives so I presume it didn't go.
This moves the description of the "+=" assignment up to the intro where
other assignments are discussed, and explains "appending" to associative
arrays.
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo
index dcca455..5833d6b 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo
@@ -94,7 +94,12 @@ indent(var(name)tt(=LPAR())var(value) ...tt(RPAR()))
If no parameter var(name) exists, an ordinary array parameter is created.
If the parameter var(name) exists and is a scalar, it is replaced by a new
-array. Ordinary array parameters may also be explicitly declared with:
+array. To append to an array without changing the existing values, use
+the syntax:
+ifzman()
+indent(var(name)tt(+=LPAR())var(value) ...tt(RPAR()))
+
+Ordinary array parameters may also be explicitly declared with:
findex(typeset, use of)
ifzman()
indent(tt(typeset -a) var(name))
@@ -110,8 +115,13 @@ indent(set -A var(name) var(key) var(value) ...)
indent(var(name)tt(=LPAR())var(key) var(value) ...tt(RPAR()))
Every var(key) must have a var(value) in this case. Note that this
-assigns to the entire array, deleting any elements that do not appear
-in the list.
+assigns to the entire array, deleting any elements that do not appear in
+the list. The append syntax may also be used with an associative array:
+ifzman()
+indent(var(name)tt(+=LPAR())var(key) var(value) ...tt(RPAR()))
+
+This adds a new key/value pair if the key is not already present, and
+replaces the value for the existing key if it is.
To create an empty array (including associative arrays), use one of:
ifzman()
@@ -211,7 +221,6 @@ indent(tt(unset) tt(")var(name)tt([)var(exp)tt(]"))
subsect(Subscript Flags)
cindex(subscript flags)
-
If the opening bracket, or the comma in a range, in any subscript
expression is directly followed by an opening parenthesis, the string up
to the matching closing one is considered to be a list of flags, as in
@@ -351,16 +360,13 @@ patterns used for reverse subscripting (the `tt(r)', `tt(R)', `tt(i)',
etc. flags), but it may also affect parameter substitutions that appear
as part of an arithmetic expression in an ordinary subscript.
-It is possible to avoid the use of subscripts in assignments to associative
-array elements by using the syntax:
+To avoid subscript parsing limitations in assignments to associative array
+elements, use the append syntax:
example(
aa+=('key with "*strange*" characters' 'value string')
)
-This adds a new key/value pair if the key is not already present, and
-replaces the value for the existing key if it is.
-
The basic rule to remember when writing a subscript expression is that all
text between the opening `tt([)' and the closing `tt(])' is interpreted
em(as if) it were in double quotes (\
--
Barton E. Schaefer
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