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Error when ternary operator is used in substring expansion (offset or length) #317
Description
This is an awkward one to parse, yet unfortunately a common idiom. An example seen in the wild, and two minimal reproducible examples:
# seen in the wild; parses with MISSING '}' after first '}'
address=${address: ${#address} < 8 ? 0 : -8} # Limit to 32-bit
# minimal example 1: parses with ERROR; bash evaluates as ${FOO:0:2}
echo ${FOO: 0 : 1 ? 2 : 3}
# minimal example 2: parses with ERROR; bash evaluates as ${FOO:2:4}
echo ${FOO: 1 ? 2 : 3 : 4}
All parse correctly with parentheses around the ternary expression.
Full parse trees
Parse trees for each example (without comments) from the playground, but found using tree-sitter-bash 0.25.1.
# playground parse tree for "address=${address: ${#address} < 8 ? 0 : -8}"
program [0, 0] - [1, 0]
command [0, 0] - [0, 44]
variable_assignment [0, 0] - [0, 30]
name: variable_name [0, 0] - [0, 7]
value: expansion [0, 8] - [0, 30]
variable_name [0, 10] - [0, 17]
expansion [0, 19] - [0, 30]
variable_name [0, 22] - [0, 29]
MISSING "}" [0, 30] - [0, 30]
redirect: file_redirect [0, 31] - [0, 34]
destination: number [0, 33] - [0, 34]
name: command_name [0, 35] - [0, 36]
word [0, 35] - [0, 36]
argument: number [0, 37] - [0, 38]
argument: word [0, 39] - [0, 40]
argument: concatenation [0, 41] - [0, 44]
number [0, 41] - [0, 43]
word [0, 43] - [0, 44]
# playground parse tree for "echo ${FOO: 0 : 1 ? 2 : 3}"
program [0, 0] - [1, 0]
command [0, 0] - [0, 26]
name: command_name [0, 0] - [0, 4]
word [0, 0] - [0, 4]
argument: expansion [0, 5] - [0, 26]
variable_name [0, 7] - [0, 10]
number [0, 12] - [0, 13]
ERROR [0, 14] - [0, 21]
number [0, 16] - [0, 17]
word [0, 20] - [0, 21]
number [0, 24] - [0, 25]
# playground parse tree for "echo ${FOO: 1 ? 2 : 3 : 4}"
program [0, 0] - [1, 0]
command [0, 0] - [0, 26]
name: command_name [0, 0] - [0, 4]
word [0, 0] - [0, 4]
ERROR [0, 5] - [0, 15]
variable_name [0, 7] - [0, 10]
number [0, 12] - [0, 13]
argument: number [0, 16] - [0, 17]
argument: word [0, 18] - [0, 19]
argument: number [0, 20] - [0, 21]
argument: word [0, 22] - [0, 23]
argument: concatenation [0, 24] - [0, 26]
number [0, 24] - [0, 25]
word [0, 25] - [0, 26]
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