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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 18:21:17 +0100
From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: How to iterate over an array of associative arrays
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On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:36:03 +0200
Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
> Yes, I really wanted to pass the actual associative arrays, but if I can 
> pass the names that's fine with me, too.

So maybe you're looking for:


typeset -A AssocArr1 AssocArr2
typeset -a array
typeset key value

AssocArr1=(key1 value1)
AssocArr2=(key2 value2)

# array is a normal array containing key/value pairs
array=(${(kv)AssocArr1} ${(kv)AssocArr2})

# scan array by pairs
for key value in $array
    do echo $key $value
done


?

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