How to edit path variable in ZSH

Question

In my .bash_profile I have the following lines:

PATHDIRS=\"
/usr/local/mysql/bin
/usr/local/share/python
/opt/local/bin
/opt/local/sbin
$HOME/bin\"
for          


        

Answer 1

Still not sure what the problem was (maybe newlines in $PATHDIRS)? but changing to zsh array syntax fixed it:

PATHDIRS=(
/usr/local/mysql/bin
/usr/local/share/python
/usr/local/scala/scala-2.8.0.final/bin
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin
/opt/local/etc
/opt/local/bin
/opt/local/sbin
$HOME/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin
$HOME/bin)

and

path=($path $dir)