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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:44:02 +0100
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Subject: Re: Copy assiociative arrays
From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
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On 21 March 2012 22:28, Ren=C3=A9 Neumann <lists@necoro.eu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is it possible to copy associative arrays?
>
> I.e. have
>
> declare -A foo bar
> foo=3D(muh vier bla "\\sechs")
> bar=3D$foo
>
> using this, bar only contains the values of foo (and using ${(kv)foo}
> instead still only makes it a string).

You still need the () when assigning to an array, even if the values
come from an array expansion
bar=3D( ${(kv)foo} )

--=20
Mikael Magnusson