[PATCH 10/10] setexpr: Add support for strings

Marek Behun
2020-11-03T16:30:11Z

On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:12:17 -0700
Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:

> Hi Marek,
>
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 at 16:08, Marek Behun <marek.behun@nic.cz> wrote:
> >
> > What is the purpose of + operator on strings?
> > Can't we use setenv "${a}${b}" ?
>
> Yes, that does the same thing, although it is a bit clumsy.
>
> setenv a *10
> setenv b *100
> setenv c "${a}${b}"
>
> instead of
>
> setexpr c *10 + *100

Hi Simon,

I don't know. It provides the same functionality that exists, but only
adds code.
Is someone really going to use this?

Marek

PS: What I think would be more useful is to add substringing
functionality into hush, so e.g. ${a:3:5}, and pattern substitions:
${parameter/pattern/string} ...