From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7116 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2004 23:24:26 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 Oct 2004 23:24:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 2087 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2004 23:24:18 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 21 Oct 2004 23:24:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 10522 invoked by alias); 21 Oct 2004 23:23:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8090 Received: (qmail 10461 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2004 23:23:23 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 21 Oct 2004 23:23:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 946 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2004 23:23:23 -0000 Received: from blackbird.world-net.net (204.57.72.6) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 21 Oct 2004 23:23:21 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (user@cs666994-6.satx.rr.com [66.69.94.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by blackbird.world-net.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9LNMMwr040999; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:22:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from teratorn@world-net.net) To: "Nikolai Weibull" , zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Associative Arrays References: <20041020195348.GJ11322@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> <20041021110526.GE1740@frhdtmp102861.morse.corp.wan> <20041021123835.GF9224@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:22:38 -0500 From: "Eric Mangold" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20041021123835.GF9224@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (Linux, build 751) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_44,RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: 1.5 On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:38:35 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: ... > Aha, double quotation and then dequoting. What a bitch...is this > seriously the simplest/only ways to do it? I'd say that shell > programming would be a lot simpler as a whole if this was simpler. > Still, I guess I'm thinking a bit too much like a Ruby or C programmer. > nikolai Alternatively, you may be trying to fit a shell language on to a problem it isn't suited for. What are you writing? -Eric