From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Is there an idiom for converting an array to an associative array?
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:50:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <040118105038.ZM10081@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oet2neqo.fsf@naz.lickey.com>
On Jan 17, 6:59pm, Matt Armstrong wrote:
> Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:
>
> > typeset "assoc[${^array[@]}]=''"
>
> Thanks, I'll give it a whirl, and then study it for a couple of hours
> to figure out how it works. :-)
Given array=(a b c), X${^array}Y expands to XaY XbY XcY. Does that help?
> > } array=(a b c)
> > } set -A assoc
> >
> > That should be "typeset -A assoc". "set -A" means something entirely
> > different.
>
> I jumped to "To create an empty array (including associative arrays)"
> in the text below:
>
> Associative arrays must be declared before assignment, by using:
>
> typeset -A name
[...]
> To create an empty array (including associative arrays), use one of:
>
> set -A name
"set -A name" is a form of assignment, not a form of declaration. Perhaps
the word "create" was poorly chosen in that bit of documentation (and that
remark is the only reason I'm still sending this to zsh-workers).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-18 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-15 17:05 Matt Armstrong
2004-01-16 4:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-01-18 2:59 ` Matt Armstrong
2004-01-18 18:50 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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