In order to see the behavior compatible with Bourne shell, you’d need to set the option SH_WORD_SPLIT: setopt shwordsplit # this can be unset by saying: unsetopt shwordsplit things=”one two” for one_thing in $things; do echo $one_thing done would produce: one two However, it’s recommended to use an array for producing word splitting, e.g., things=(one … Read more
An off-by-one error is for example when you intend to perform a loop n times and write something like: for (int i = 1; i < n; ++i) { … } or: for (int i = 0; i <= n; ++i) { … } In the first case the loop will be executed (n – … Read more
There is a discrepancy between the two examples. The first will execute the “do something” at least once every time even if the statement is never true. The second will only “do something” when the statement evaluates to true. I think what you are looking for is a do-while loop. I 100% agree that while … Read more