Re: Subscript flag (i) not working correctly on empty strings?

[Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 2:46 PM Philippe Altherr
<philippe.altherr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the fix.
>
> For the record, I was trying to do something like this:
>
>> separator_index=$input[(i):]
>> if [[ $separator_index -le $#input ]]; then
>>   # Found separator
>>   ...
>> fi

Whenever I need to check whether a string/array contains a
character/element, I do it like this:

    if (( $input[(I):] )); then
      print 'input contains colon'
    fi

It's nice that $input is referenced only once. It's also nice that the
"contains" condition has no operators.

Roman.