On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 11:17 PM William Park wrote:
> I'm running out of special characters, and I don't want another operator
> or syntax that I can't remember 2 weeks from now. :-) That's my main
> issue with Zsh.
I concur, I find the expansion operators devilishly hard to remember!
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:29:46AM +0800, Koichi Murase wrote:
> 2021年1月24日(日) 10:22 William Park :
> Is there a background for choosing a semicolon to split words? Zsh has
> a similar feature with a different syntax:
I'm running out of special characters, and I don't want another operator
or synt
2021年1月24日(日) 10:22 William Park :
> [...] But, if separator is string, then it gets messy.
I agree that the split by a (multi-character) string is one of the
non-trivial operations in the current Bash.
> We shouldn't have to resort to Awk/Python for that.
I think a typical reply in this list t
If separator is a single character, then shell can split a string or
join arguments. But, if separator is string, then it gets messy. We
shouldn't have to resort to Awk/Python for that.
How about Python-like string split and string join?
${parameter...} is overloaded as is, and we are running o
