Issue when using code block output as args about murex HOT 4 CLOSED

Variables are properly tokenised in Murex so they don't need to be quoted. This solves problems like spaces in file names. So in your example ${ out "a z" } is treated as a single string "a z".

If you want to expand variables to cover multiple parameters then you need the @ sigil instead. For example:

foobar = %[a, z]
cat @foobar

Similarly, sub-shells also support the different sigils:

cat @{ %[a, z] }

It's worth noting that @{ out "a z" } will still be interpreted as "a z" because you're outputting a string with a space in (ie the output of out is a single line string rather than an array).

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This point is touched on in: https://murex.rocks/tour.html#sub-shells but I could do with making that clearer.

It looks like I copied the $ doc but forgot to change it for @ 🤦 https://murex.rocks/parser/array.html

I do also plan on writing some dedicated documentation for sub-shells too

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D'oh! I see now this was largely a failure on my part to read/understand the relevant docs. Thanks for the help.

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@tiymat I think this is a failure of the docs not being clearer.

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