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| author | Peter Stephenson <pws@zsh.org> | 2015-03-06 09:50:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Stephenson <pws@zsh.org> | 2015-03-06 09:50:01 +0000 |
| commit | 00b3085b969f46370f7cde28e9dfa10026b884c7 (patch) | |
| tree | ce386e0b57828a13b8db40c4902d00489f14d90a /Doc/Zsh | |
| parent | ec03a233c5b1ae0256f00bfa6bf19d406d860d33 (diff) | |
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34657: document the effect of substring subscripting better
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diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo index d044f8749..7b127bc68 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo @@ -187,7 +187,17 @@ from the end of the array tt(foo), and Subscripting may also be performed on non-array values, in which case the subscripts specify a substring to be extracted. For example, if tt(FOO) is set to `tt(foobar)', then -`tt(echo $FOO[2,5])' prints `tt(ooba)'. +`tt(echo $FOO[2,5])' prints `tt(ooba)'. Note that +some forms of subscripting described below perform pattern matching, +and in that case the substring extends from the start of the match +of the first subscript to the end of the match of the second +subscript. For example, + +example(string="abcdefghijklm" +print ${string[+LPAR()r+RPAR()d?,+LPAR()r+RPAR()h?]}) + +prints `tt(defghi)'. This is an obvious generalisation of the +rule for single-character matches. subsect(Array Element Assignment) |