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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--Src/subst.c28
-rw-r--r--Test/D04parameter.ztst5
3 files changed, 34 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 429cd0376..461bfeacb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2021-04-08 Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
+ * 48379: Src/subst.c, Test/D04parameter.ztst: Make the parameter
+ expansion subscript flags parse error message, "error in flags",
+ identify the location of the parse error.
+
* 48321 (tweaked per thread): Completion/Unix/Type/_perl_modules:
Don't assume ${words[1]} to be either "perl" or "perldoc"
diff --git a/Src/subst.c b/Src/subst.c
index 8f5bd355e..96e0914eb 100644
--- a/Src/subst.c
+++ b/Src/subst.c
@@ -2259,9 +2259,31 @@ paramsubst(LinkList l, LinkNode n, char **str, int qt, int pf_flags,
break;
default:
- flagerr:
- zerr("error in flags");
- return NULL;
+ flagerr:
+ {
+ /*
+ * We're trying to output the string that failed to
+ * parse and the offset of the parse error within that.
+ *
+ * The string is *str. It hasn't been changed since
+ * entry to this function, I think, except that the
+ * first non-variable-declaration line in this function
+ * (currently the 238th line in this function)
+ * writes a NUL to the first place in *str, so we'll
+ * compensate by outputting the dollar sign manually.
+ */
+ char *str_copy_for_output = dupstring(*str + 1);
+
+ /*
+ * Convert to a 1-based offset, because the shell
+ * language is 1-based by default.
+ */
+ zlong offset = s - *str + 1;
+
+ untokenize(str_copy_for_output);
+ zerr("error in flags near position %z in '$%s'", offset, str_copy_for_output);
+ return NULL;
+ }
}
}
s++;
diff --git a/Test/D04parameter.ztst b/Test/D04parameter.ztst
index ac99ff0e3..05bb61bdc 100644
--- a/Test/D04parameter.ztst
+++ b/Test/D04parameter.ztst
@@ -2691,3 +2691,8 @@ F:behavior, see http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=888
eval 'echo $(\*)'
0:Backslash character other than newline is normal after $(
>What a star
+
+ : ${(zZ+x+):-}
+1:parameter expansion flags parsing error gives a clue
+?(eval):1: error in flags near position 7 in '${(zZ+x+):-}'
+