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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
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Subject: easy calling of associative array?
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test ()
{
     eval "baz=\$${1}[key1]"
     echo $baz
eval "foo=\$${1}[key2]"
     echo $foo
...
}

If I want to pass the name of an associative array to a function via 
"$1" and then work with it's keys, the above succeeds but it's sure 
laborious. Is there some way to do the eval just once?  So that I can 
end up doing:

if [ "xyz[key1]" = '1' ]; then ...

... as I experiment, there seems to be no way of replacing 'xyz' with 
any expression that will do the job without needing eval's help every 
time, but I'll bet there's a way.