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PATCH: untokenize string sent to matheval for (#) flag
- X-seq: zsh-workers 54692
- From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
- Cc: Stephane Chazelas <stephane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: PATCH: untokenize string sent to matheval for (#) flag
- Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 07:44:15 +0200
- Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/workers/54692>
- In-reply-to: <20210912081151.k5cqsw6tdmkj7mi4@chazelas.org>
- List-id: <zsh-workers.zsh.org>
- References: <20210912081151.k5cqsw6tdmkj7mi4@chazelas.org>
Fixes 49409.
---
Before:
echo ${(X#):-2#1011010}
zsh:1: bad math expression: illegal character: ^?
After:
echo ${(X#):-2#1011010}
Z
I don't think matheval ever does anything useful with tokenized strings so this
shouldn't cause any problems, right?
Src/subst.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Src/subst.c b/Src/subst.c
index 1776d5e164..9c7ba6c453 100644
--- a/Src/subst.c
+++ b/Src/subst.c
@@ -1494,6 +1494,8 @@ substevalchar(char *ptr)
int saved_errflag = errflag;
errflag = 0;
+ ptr = dupstring(ptr);
+ untokenize(ptr);
ires = mathevali(ptr);
if (errflag) { /* not a valid numerical expression */
--
2.38.1
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