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From: Borzenkov Andrey <Andrey.Borzenkov@siemens.com>
To: jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de, zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: RE: array as loopvariable - howto
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 14:24:23 +0400
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> 
> I would like to write a loop over a list of arrays,
> 
> e.g. I would like to iterate over pairs of (username,UID)
> 
> A naiv try like
> 
> for User in (User1,100) (User2,120); do  echo "$U[1] has UID $U[2]";
> done
> 
> failed.
> Is this possible in ZSH?
> 



For array variables what is wrong with

A=(user1 uid1 ...)
B=(user2 uid2 ...)

for user uid in $A $B; do
  echo User $user has $uid
done

for literal arrays just put them all in for loop

for user uid in user1 250 user2 350 ...

Or I do not understand your question?

-andrey