Re: weird behaviour of ((count++)) when using , , to change to lower case

[Dennis Williamson]

If I do the echo line twice, I get a segfault in both Bash
4.0.33(1)-release and 4.1.0(1)-release.

And you're right about being evaluated twice.

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Bernd Eggink <monoped@sudrala.de> wrote:
> Am 01.08.2010 13:06, schrieb Andrew Benton:
>
>> Also good. Now try converting it to lower case with ,,
>>
>> andy:~$ count=0
>> andy:~$ echo "${days[${count}],,}, ${days[$((count++))],,},
>> ${days[$((count++))],,}"
>> monday, tuesday, thursday
>>
>> What happened to wednesday?
>
> I'd rather expect this to print "monday, monday, tuesday", since you left
> out the ++ in the first term.
>
> I think the problem is that the ,, operator causes each expression to be
> evaluated twice. That would explain this behaviour, and it's a bug IMHO.
>
> Regards,
> Bernd
>
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> Bernd Eggink
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