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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: How to iterate over an array of associative arrays
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 18:49:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <krukqo$m5d$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130714161437.GA25112@mugenguild.com>

* Valodim Skywalker (Sun, 14 Jul 2013 18:14:37 +0200)
> 
> I couldn't get that to work, either. The associative part seems to be
> lost after (P) indirection, since elements can be addressed numerically.
> 
> Anyways, here's an alternative suggestion:
> 
>   typeset -A a1 a2;
>   arr=( a2 a1 ); a1=(key val1); a2=(key val2);
>   for i in $arr; echo ${(e):-\$$i\[key]}
> 
> This uses (e), so beware of security implications.

...works. What for christ's sake does it do? (Of course, I could try to 
figure it out on my own, but that might take a few days...)

Thorsten


  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-14 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-14 12:35 Thorsten Kampe
2013-07-14 13:10 ` Mikael Magnusson
2013-07-14 13:36   ` Thorsten Kampe
2013-07-14 16:14     ` Valodim Skywalker
2013-07-14 16:49       ` Thorsten Kampe [this message]
2013-07-14 17:25         ` Valodim Skywalker
2013-07-14 17:21     ` Peter Stephenson
2013-07-14 19:57       ` Thorsten Kampe
2013-07-14 22:57         ` Bart Schaefer
2013-07-14 18:05     ` Bart Schaefer

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