Thank you, Daniel. That works great. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Jesper Nygårds wrote on Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 19:15:01 +0200: > > I have a fairly long function where the result is stored in an array > called > > "mylines". > > > > I want the function to return normally (status zero) if "mylines" > contains > > at least one non-empty element, and with non-zero otherwise. > > return $(( $mylines[(I)?*] > 0 )0 > > The (I) modifier interprets the key as a pattern and returns the highest > index of a match, or 0 if there was no match. >