From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: "<zsh-users@zsh.org>" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Associative array, brace-free subscripting: key with spaces
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:28:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151029172810.1f326658@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKjp4B7B_S8T=ugeDRfe2sASJoVSY7UAwWFkBUFO9QszqjofPA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:17:17 -0400
Clint Hepner <clint.hepner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Consider the array
>
> typeset -A b
> b=("a b c" d)
>
> The following correctly expands to "d"
>
> ${b[a b c]}
>
> but this results in a "bad subscript" error:
>
> $b[a b c]
Without the surrounding brace, the spaces separate words, so it looks at
"$b[a" and doesn't like it.
pws
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2015-10-29 17:17 Clint Hepner
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