Re: Feature Request: Python-like string split and join

2021-01-24 Thread Jesse Hathaway
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!

Re: Feature Request: Python-like string split and join

2021-01-23 Thread William Park
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

Re: Feature Request: Python-like string split and join

2021-01-23 Thread Koichi Murase
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