How to Run a Shell Command in a zsh-theme?

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So, I have Oh My Zsh up and running, and I'm creating my own new zsh-theme. In it, I wish to grab the external IP address from https://api.myip.com - and I'm using curl & grep to grab it. Works fine when I enter it at the command prompt, but when embedded in my zsh-theme file it gives me an error:

zsh: no matches found: ((1?[0-9][0-9]?|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5]).){3}(1?[0-9][0-9]?|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])
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Jacobs-MacBook-Pro-2.local jacobjackson ttys002 0 [                               ] 10/29/20 18:32:46 PM

Here is my zsh-theme:

PROMPT='%F{white}%M %n %y %j $(curl -s https://api.myip.com | grep -oE '((1?[0-9][0-9]?|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])\.){3}(1?[0-9][0-9]?|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])') %F{green}%2c%F{blue} [%f '
RPROMPT='$(git_prompt_info) %F{blue}] %F{green}%W %* %F{yellow}%D{%p}%f'

ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_PREFIX="%F{yellow}"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_SUFFIX="%f"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY=" %F{red}*%f"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN=""

And here is the command sequence that grabs the IP address:

curl -s https://api.myip.com | grep -oE '((1?[0-9][0-9]?|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])\.){3}(1?[0-9][0-9]?|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])'
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1 Answers

Try this:

# Function name that's compatible with
# http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/User-Contributions.html#Prompt-Themes
# in case you ever want to build a full prompt theme.
# `-s` to prevent `curl` from outputting a progress bar.
# Use a service that simply outputs our IP, so we don't have to parse anything.
prompt_jacobjackson_precmd() { 
  psvar[1]=$(curl -s ifconfig.co) 
}

# `precmd` hooks get executed just before each new prompt.
autoload -Uz add-zsh-hook 
add-zsh-hook precmd prompt_jacobjackson_precmd

# `%1v` inserts the 1st element of the `psvar` array. See
# http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Prompt-Expansion.html#Conditional-Substrings-in-Prompts
PS1='%1v > '
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